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Comment by sunshowers

18 hours ago

There are two big differences between norms and habits: habits are usually individual while norms apply to a community, and norms have a great deal of social pressure behind them.

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card_zero  16 hours ago

That's true. I just didn't want to keep saying norm because somebody might ask "who's Norm?".

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