Self-Expressive Legitimacy

Legitimacy refers to a judgment about what is right and wrong, how one ought to live, structuring the legitimacy of social consumption, shaping the beliefs and intentions of their members. Participants can seek the pleasure of a common sense of being in the right or rejecting those in the wrong. This is the pleasure of a good will, intending to act on what one takes to be valid beliefs.

 

Does participating in the activity associated with [amenity] promote in participants a sense that the right way to do something is to do it in your own way rather than the way it has always been done or the by following a present rule? A sense of the importance and value of originality, of innovation, or of the opportunity to experience unique and non-repeatable expressions of individual creativity?

Is promoting originality and doing things your own way a crucial part of this amenity? Would the absence of this quality fundamentally change this amenity?

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Does participating in the activity associated with [amenity] promote in participants a sense that that successfully doing the activity restricts unusual experiences, innovation, and individual uniqueness?  A sense of the importance and value of fitting into established roles and into your place in a group such that doing the activity in your own way would be discouraged?

Is restricting innovation and uniqueness a crucial part of this amenity? Would the absence of this restriction fundamentally change this amenity?

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