[mattsahr]

Mimesis is one side of a coin, it seems like contrarian tendency is the other. They both involve you making a little theory-of-mind for each of your friends/enemies/associates. To the point, it disturbs you that people are malleable and/or unreasonable, but why do you care at all?

I just wondered. Because you are a rando on the internet, and I constructed a model of your mind, and I don't quite understand it.

[jongjong]

I care because, as a rational agent (or at least someone who aims to be), group-think affects me negatively when the group develops a dominant ideology which risks to infringe on my personal rights or take away opportunities from me sooner or later. I also believe that these dominant ideologies are harmful to the group and most of its honest/rational members.

It's important that members of the group keep an open mind so that the group doesn't become dogmatic. That's why I try to make contrarian arguments.