# Sanity is just a form of conformity.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanity-is-just-a-form-of-conformity/232195
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [March 3, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanity-is-just-a-form-of-conformity/232195 "2004-03-03T00:00:21Z")
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### Author: ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanity-is-just-a-form-of-conformity/232195/61 "2004-03-21T02:23:09Z")

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> [@mswas](#):
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> Well I actually believe that there is a sense to everything everyone says, and that just because we can’t make sense of it doesn’t mean it exists there.  
> Erek

All you’re saying is that thoughts are the result of some process and not spontaneous occurences. And that the underlying process is that person’s logic mechanism. And within that framework, a person’s thoughts makes sense to whomever shares that framework. I never denied that. Your advice was that people should accept and not judge. I said that that is technically close to impossible and certainly unadvisable. All thinking is, in a matter of speaking, judging. The emphasis should be on adaptable and inductively self-correcting judgement, not on a lack of it.

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