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		austincheney on July 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Four Quadrants of Conformism > As for most attempts to classify people, it should be strongly stated that any single human would fits several quadrants depending on the subject Its not related to such subjectivity as the subjectivity is itself a likely form of conformity.

hrktb on July 24, 2020 [–]

I meant that someone could be "sheep"ly following rules and ignoring others when it comes to games, but "naughty" when it's about business or fiscality, and "tattletales" when it comes to religion.

That would be the same person, but behaving differently depending on the field or the context.

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