[quote=So Boerd]
That's a discussion for another thread.You wouldn't want to live in a perfectly accepting or even tolerant society tolerant of whatever nonconformists do. There would be no laws preventing companies from not serving black people, and certainly Donald Sterling wouldn't be banned from the NBA as all he did was say dumb stuff, not do anything.
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And I didn't say I would want to live in a society tolerant of people not conforming in whatever way they like. Funny, that. For the sake of order, we need to have some degree of conformity as mandatory in the form of laws we must follow. I never said otherwise. Non-conformity is believing in not conforming just for the sake of conformity - if there is a legitimate reason to "conform" or to adhere to a certain rule, then it isn't violating that principle in some way. What hair colour the majority of people, however, does not fall under "legitimate reason" for people to not dye their hair whatever damn colour they like.

[quote=The Nexerus]
It's naive to believe that people are capable of not being influenced by their surroundings. Every decision that every person has ever made was weighed in based on what the reactions of their peers would be.
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Yes, which is why your argument that a belief in a policy of non-conformity would lead to everyone looking as outlandish as possible makes no sense. Anti-conformists, yes - they would intentionally look as different as possible. Non-conformists? Half the time they'd end up with the exact same views, making the exact same choices, as everyone else anyway. They wouldn't "rebel" in every single way. They just wouldn't feel the need to do the same as everyone else if they didn't want to on certain things. Which is why people feeling free to be individuals wouldn't result in the collapse (or at least uncontrollable ludicrousness) of society as you and So Boerd seem to believe, and why people's individuality should certainly be accepted in society.