I don't think you understand what social norms are.Quote:
Except they're not the ones making it that way, the people on your side of the fence are. Your groups don't get to decide social norms on their own
These aren't "my" groups. I'm not a linkshell leader. I didn't start them. There is no one person who started them. They just happened, because they're logical and they result in the greatest benefit and fun for the largest number of people.
Lots of people are following these social norms. Linkshell members, random party members, even soloers who shout for parties. You're trying to make it sound like one single group, and that's completely false (and by now, you should know that).
You're making it sound like water decides to flow down a riverbed. Water just flows and forms a river. Social norms develop much in the same way. They're the social rules that form within our shared constructs, and they don't form because they're more infuriating or less convenient.
There is no "my side of the fence." There is the social norm, and then those who reject it. The number of people who reject social norms is very, very small, and they cause lots of problems for everyone else. You can find them in real life, talking on their cell phones on buses (I'm not required to wait!), cutting in front of people at the grocery store (I'm more important), cutting people off in parking lots (I have just as much right to that parking spot), etc. They exist, and most people despise them, because they violate the "rules" the rest of us live by to be better neighbors. They cause people to be frustrated; people aren't just frustrated by random coincidence, which is what you inexplicably seem to believe.
You should also brush up on your basic laws of physics. At least one applies here.
Not only are you wrong, but your responses indicate very little thought into what's actually happening.
EDIT: What you should just say is, "I understand there are social norms, but I believe the benefit of not following social norms is..." Then, we can really start getting somewhere with all of this.
