In mechanical solidarity societies, beliefs and rules are so strongly shared that they come to be embodied as religion, or as quasi-religious attributes of society; they make up what Durkheim calls the conscience collective of the society. This term denotes the 'totality of beliefs and sentiments' which are held by all ordinary members of society. The task of rule enforcement in such: a society is to provide procedures not whereby differences can be reconciled, but whereby the occasional transgressor can be shown the offence s/he has caused to the other members of society, and whereby rule-keeping members can be assured that the rules violated are still important. Durkheim says that the form of law that develops in such societies will be repressive: anyone who departs from the conscience collective is, by definition, mad or bad and thus needs to be repressed. Furthermore, offences are against the conscience of the whole society; they therefore have a quality of sacrilegiousness that calls for repressive punishment.