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Otaku Hunting

You can't tell me that deep down you don't kinda wanna rob that guy.

Non conformists create identity. If there was no one who broke the mould, didn't conform, whatever then there would be little to compare to and so there would be no 'conformity' as there would be nothing that is non conformist therefore no real definition of what conformity would be. My basic point is that pretty much everything of this nature exists by nature of comparison, not by inherent fact.

Celebrate the non conformists as they allow you to identify yourself.

If people weren't classed and stereotyped in anyway would there be as much of a mesh between people? There has to be a reason that people classify, group, stereotype and assign features to things.

hentai4me wrote:

Non conformists create identity. If there was no one who broke the mould, didn't conform, whatever then there would be little to compare to and so there would be no 'conformity' as there would be nothing that is non conformist therefore no real definition of what conformity would be. My basic point is that pretty much everything of this nature exists by nature of comparison, not by inherent fact. Celebrate the non conformists as they allow you to identify yourself. If people weren't classed and stereotyped in anyway would there be as much of a mesh between people? There has to be a reason that people classify, group, stereotype and assign features to things.

Yours is a very western view point. The argument made by another poster who explained why otaku 'should be beaten down like nails' would be the Japanese view or at least one of the main views in Japan about being different from the rest of society.

I don't think Akihabara is about to become a crime haven just yet.

kola wrote:

hentai4me wrote: Non conformists create identity. If there was no one who broke the mould, didn't conform, whatever then there would be little to compare to and so there would be no 'conformity' as there would be nothing that is non conformist therefore no real definition of what conformity would be. My basic point is that pretty much everything of this nature exists by nature of comparison, not by inherent fact. Celebrate the non conformists as they allow you to identify yourself. If people weren't classed and stereotyped in anyway would there be as much of a mesh between people? There has to be a reason that people classify, group, stereotype and assign features to things. Yours is a very western view point. The argument made by another poster who explained why otaku 'should be beaten down like nails' would be the Japanese view or at least one of the main views in Japan about being different from the rest of society.

Actually my argument doesn't refute his argument at all. People in Japanese society. and I am making a very broad sweeping generalization here, see otakuism as "wrong behavior." Mainstream society can turn to otaku and say "don't be like them" thereby using the otaku as a way of identifying themselves. (I'm not an otaku).

Exactly, and if everyone was a conformist there would be no defining features of conformism and it would most likely cease to exist as 'conformism' as there would be nothing to conform to anymore. (it's hard to explain with a keyboard)