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#248 — Order & Freedom

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What Are Social Norms?

Social norms are these unwritten rules for behavior. They help us to predict each other's behavior and coordinate. In a world without social norms, it quickly becomes obvious that we couldn't function. I'm all about changing the culture when it seems non optimal. And that saying it's easy, but i didn't mean to imply think we couldn't do that.

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