Comfort with breaking rules can come from enjoying it or being indifferent to them

Negation: Comfort with breaking rules cannot come from either enjoying it or being indifferent to them 0 0 0

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Argument #44d52038 1 0 2

If it is true that...

Willingness to break rules is necessary to fix broken models of the world 1 0 2

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Good new ideas often seem bad initially because they break rules or norms 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

Comfort with breaking rules can come from enjoying it or being indifferent to them 1 0 2

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Argument #ae83059f 1 0 2

If it is true that...

New ideas often seem obvious once they are seen, but require changing the way one looks at the world to be discovered 1 0 2

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Broken models of the world leave clues where they clash with reality, which can lead to new ideas 1 0 2

and

Willingness to break rules is necessary to fix broken models of the world 1 0 2

and

Good new ideas often seem bad initially because they break rules or norms 1 0 2

and

Comfort with breaking rules can come from enjoying it or being indifferent to them 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

Overlooked ideas can be discovered by working from what's obscuring them 1 0 2

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