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How does the belief in renincarnation provide a form of social control? ​

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Because it leads people to believe that their good deeds will amount to a better life next time. Just like many other religions it provides an incentive to behave well in society, forming social control
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By convincing people that the position they were born into was a result of their good and bad deeds and past lives and therefore they deserved what they got.
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