There is a difference between conforming your behavior and conforming your mind. It’s perfectly reasonable to respect murder prohibitions, but it’s not reasonable to accept conventional thinking without challenge. That doesn’t mean you should disagree with every idea or conviction held by another, but it does mean you shouldn’t include deference or majority opinion as an important factor in determining your conclusions — assuming you are knowledgeable and intelligent enough to understand the subject matter. Who cares what other people think, prove your case.
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hedgy /hej-ee/
–noun
1. a slightly less than average intelligence, usually 20-something male, working for or managing a hedge fund that uses flashing color signals and/or lines drawn on charts (sometimes by fancy sounding computer programs written by broke never-invested-outside-a-mutual-fund PHD’s) to destroy wealth.
2. a person so incapable of independent thought they outsource all their decisions then refuse to accept responsibility for the consequences.
3. a person who hides their inability to understand even the most basic fundamental realities of their discipline with an ostentatious lifestyle funded by debt.
4. a person who everybody subconsciously wants to see fail at life.
