Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[Hojo]

Intellectual Cowardice: Sacrificing truth or honest analysis out of fear—often the fear of social retribution, controversy, or offending a particular group.

Intellectual Dishonesty: Deliberately maintaining or advocating for a position you know is false, or avoiding a conclusion you know is true, typically for personal or social advantage .

Self-Censorship: The act of restricting one's own expression or intellectual pursuit to avoid giving offense or causing controversy.

Politically Correct Discourse: Sometimes used to describe language or ideas that are filtered to strictly adhere to norms intended to avoid offence, potentially at the expense of clarity or truth.

Motive over Truth: A situation where the motive is prioritized over the pursuit of objective truth or integrity.

Reading books

Cutting nails/hair

Sucking gut in

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Hojo

[Yimpa]

 

[Nemra]

Relying on AI by deceiving oneself into thinking that they can write like the AI generated responses or that AI is for all purposes instead of trying to make it useful for you.

[UnbornTao]

Now, bring up some positive examples of conformity that you engage in or benefit from, even if unknowingly:

wearing clothes, using the metric system, updating your mobile apps, or checking expiry labels.

Or, hey, using language and participating in cultural customs.

It seems to me we are more comformists than we're willing to admit, both individually and collectively. And, again, that's not necessarily bad - or good, either. It's part of being a social animal, deeply embedded in our biology and psychology.