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In response to "Many cases seems to imply the majority of these people settling down into 'adulthood' are doing it because of societal pressures." by Will Hunting

those two options aren't mutually exclusive.

Posted by znufrii Aug 21 '09, 08:58

you can "truly want" to do something precisely *because* you're living up to societal expectations, and I'm not saying there's anything necessarily wrong with that.

More importantly, I don't think the concept of "want" can be meaningfully severed from a societal context, so there necessaily overlap.

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- but also consider the idea that doing something to rebel against societal expectations can be just as influenced by them. -- nm - znufrii Aug 21, 09:07 1
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- I'm thinking of something a bit more subtle than what you're describing - znufrii Aug 21, 09:04 2
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    - It's not even always so much about caring what society would think (because really, society on the whole doesn't really care) - znufrii Aug 21, 09:12

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those two options aren't mutually exclusive.

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