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5 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 15 November 2012 07:41PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 16 November 2012 04:28:55AM *  0 points [-]

Those can all be factors in your conscious computation of what attitude to choose. And, you can choose your herd based on their attitudes. Attitudes are by no means uniform throughout humanity or even within a single society.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 16 November 2012 04:37:12AM 0 points [-]

True, but I'd say that this still stands:

I suspect that if you actually run the numbers, people who go with the societal flow do better.