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What exactly makes you a non-conformist? - Do you wear your pants on your chest and shirts on your legs? - Do you actively proclaim that pedophilia is

What exactly makes you a non-conformist? - Do you wear your pants on your chest and shirts on your legs? - Do you actively proclaim that pedophilia is perfectly acceptable? In my opinion, non-conformist is just another label, which sounds awfully conformist when you think about it. Some people conform for stupid reasons (e.g. a need to feel accepted), but sometimes you find a group of like-minded individuals with similar interests. What then? Do you conform or not? What if you earnestly have the same interests? Simple solution: How about just do/like whatever you like, and don't try to make everyone think you're a special snowflake? Because the majority of people in the world frankly don't give a shit. You like 70's music? You like trashy horror flicks? You like furry art? Good for you. Continue to like it and stop trying to cast it as a radical act.

verbin217 11y ago
"How about just do/like whatever you like, and don't try to make everyone think you're a special snowflake" So... be a non-conformist? A non-conformist maintains a notion of themselves as such not because they're trying to be a special snow-flake. They need a concept with which to analyze their problems. It's actually really hard to just do what you like and get away with it. Like you said, "the majority of people in the world frankly don't give a shit." No one out there is trying to figure out how to reward you for something they don't understand. Even if it's insanely valuable. There will always be rewards for simply adapting yourself to an existing concept. Anyone not doing that pays a significant penalty for which the conformist world is entirely ignorant. They won't care and they won't help you deal with it. Hence, non-conformists converge-on but don't necessarily conform-to this stereotype. The one in the corner complaining about the conformists.

verbin217 11y ago

"How about just do/like whatever you like, and don't try to make everyone think you're a special snowflake" So... be a non-conformist? A non-conformist maintains a notion of themselves as such not because they're trying to be a special snow-flake. They need a concept with which to analyze their problems. It's actually really hard to just do what you like and get away with it. Like you said, "the majority of people in the world frankly don't give a shit." No one out there is trying to figure out how to reward you for something they don't understand. Even if it's insanely valuable. There will always be rewards for simply adapting yourself to an existing concept. Anyone not doing that pays a significant penalty for which the conformist world is entirely ignorant. They won't care and they won't help you deal with it. Hence, non-conformists converge-on but don't necessarily conform-to this stereotype. The one in the corner complaining about the conformists.