Blog #5

I don't know if the Box Man would have chosen to be such a nonconformist if he had the chance. I don't think that if anyone had the choice between being homeless and having some sort of shelter that they would choose homelessness. However, the Box Man has come to terms with the fact that this is the way that he has to live his life. In doing this, he has conquered loneliness by realizing that he is his one true friend; that he is on his own. I don't thinking conformity is necessarily a bad thing, as long as one believes what they are conforming to is the right thing to do. One shouldn't follow a society's rules or expectations blindly, but there is rational conformity. People who don't go about murdering others are conforming to the social norm of not killing people. It is conformity, but it obviously is a good thing. Decisions should not be made based on whether they are conformist or nonconformist, but on what the individual values.