It seems to me that aggressively conventional-minded people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the trouble in the world.
PAUL GRAHAM
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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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