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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.
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'Conformists' ARE those individuals that you're describing. The precise people that you're labelling non-conformists, the ones who generally adhere to the norms of society because it's what they believe in, are the people that anti-conformists would call conformists. They're individuals who, using their individual thought, create a general consensus that wavers in either direction according to the changing views of the individuals that make up that social consensus. Individuality IS accepted in society. It's what determines society, even.