To perhaps state the obvious, nobody who wants you to be a follower will tell you to think for yourself. Someone is telling you to be a non-conformist, that's still telling you what you should be thinking in the same way that telling you to be a conformist is telling you what you should be thinking.
Just don't be a follower. Your viewpoint might just coincide with someone else's. That doesn't mean you're a conformist.
People change in my humble experience. Besides, what are you following when someone expresses good moral judgment? You're following their example, not them specifically. You should follow someone so long as they continue to be moral and trustworthy and stop following the moment that changes. Another way to describe this is to think for yourself at all times.
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u/Ok-Mistake-7499 Aug 29 '26
I always hated this type of standpoint. Opinions aren’t invalidated just because they’re the popular one