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If people are going to University because everyone else is than they are in turn going to University based on what they think everyone else's reasoning is. Doi
by euccastro 18y ago
If people are going to University because everyone else is than they are in turn going to University based on what they think everyone else's reasoning is.
Doing something because everyone else does it doesn't imply any consideration for everyone else's reasons. It indeed suggests the opposite.
- TomOfTTB 18y agoHow so? Let's take what most would consider a shallow action. Say a high school student start wearing a certain type of shoes because everyone else is wearing that type of shoes. In that example the crowd's motivation for wearing those shoes is to look cool. Wasn't the high school student who wore them because everyone else did also trying to look cool? Or for a more adult example, take the last election. There were people on my corner holding up Barack Obama signs. Signs, by their nature, are an act of peer pressure (since you can't make a full, reasoned argument on a sign). So the question is this, would those people with the signs be happy if I joined them in holding up a sign but then turned around and voted for McCain? Of course not, because their goal was to get me to adopt their cause not just mindlessly follow them.