Stroke Width Relative to Resizing

When I have an oject that has a stroke outline of say, 10 pt., and I resize the object, everything resizes except for the stroke width which remains at 10pt. Is there a way to fix the stroke width so that it resizes with the other attributes of the object?

Preferences>General>Scale Strokes&Effects

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