Most of us just want to fit in, and believe what everybody believes.

Coming to your beliefs this way is not actually intelligent. We don’t do it consciously. It’s just tribalism or herding instinct or whatever.

So if everybody agrees with you then that’s a pretty good sign that you are wrong.

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    Not contradicting anything you said or trying to make an argument, just thought it would be a cool thing to share and let people learn about.

    But if you do want some kind of argument, then I would say that while you are not wrong here, conformity has basically nothing to do with drawing reasonable conclusions and that really isn’t it’s purpose. Conformity is almost more of a defense mechanism (which can go wrong rather easily, hence this discussion) meant to keep us comfortable and prevent accidentally painting a social target on our own backs. It’s when conformity is conflated with logical reasoning that we start to get problems.

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        Perhaps, but for a lot of people it can be incredibly dangerous or even lethal to be that social target

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            And at worst, they will kill you for perhaps being gay, trans, having a different religion, or otherwise not conforming to ‘normal’ society