My approach to understanding conformit has always been that comformity is an act of respect to others, or that humans evolved conformity to avoid catching contagious brain-harming parasites whose only visible symptom is preventing people from conforming (e.g. homeless person who walks like a rabid animal).
I like your description a lot better. I think I’ll take conformity more seriously from now on.
I wasn’t thinking so much about conformity (defined as, e.g., “everybody has to adhere to a strict codex”) but as a lightweight means of detecting free-loaders and non-cooperators. But it is good to remind me that such means can go wrong.
My approach to understanding conformit has always been that comformity is an act of respect to others, or that humans evolved conformity to avoid catching contagious brain-harming parasites whose only visible symptom is preventing people from conforming (e.g. homeless person who walks like a rabid animal).
I like your description a lot better. I think I’ll take conformity more seriously from now on.
I wasn’t thinking so much about conformity (defined as, e.g., “everybody has to adhere to a strict codex”) but as a lightweight means of detecting free-loaders and non-cooperators. But it is good to remind me that such means can go wrong.