Ultimately you know and everyone else knows that it’s just a charade, and that really your “nonconforming” is just conforming one level below surface: You stand there and take abuse that you know to be insincere, and then get a pat on the back about it later, just like everyone else did on their turn.
Indeed … This sounds like an initiation, not a rationality exercise.
Indeed … This sounds like an initiation, not a rationality exercise.
You meant this one, right?