This should be blatantly obvious, but thank you for pointing it out. I think that many people are blind to social expectations, taboos and their social context.

This should be blatantly obvious, but thank you for pointing it out. I think that many people are blind to social expectations, taboos and their social context. I think Paul Graham's essay about mental fashions is a great summary of this type of mental stretching, but most people fall far from the philosophic ideal of being able to see society's unwritten rules from a distance. http://paulgraham.com/say.html http://paulgraham.com/say.html