An analogy with kids
- Aggressively conventional-minded: they believe not only that rules must be obeyed, but that those who disobey them must be punished.
- Passively conventional-minded: they're careful to obey the rules, but when other kids break them, their impulse is to worry that those kids will be punished.
- Passively independent-minded: they don't care much about rules and probably aren't 100% sure what the rules even are.
- Aggressively independent-minded: when they see a rule, their first impulse is to question it. Merely being told what to do makes them inclined to do the opposite.
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We have many ways of classifying people in our society. Some of them are very specific, whereas the others aim at giving a rough classification. The latter type is the classification proposed by Paul Graham in this article about conformism.
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