The Differences Between Liberal and Intermediate Societies

An intermediate group normally within a liberal society has no punishment more extreme than expulsion and shunning. The church or the club or the university, they don't have prisons and incidences, they can hand out. A lot of traditional answers here have to do with the cohesiveness of state's abilities to punish. But I do think that states are on a continuum with other groups. They're not morally, utterly different.