what are you?

I don't like labels, more so when trying to define someone holistically with a single word... I try to judge any idea on their own... 

That said, if I had to, I'd say I'm a progressive pragmatic centrist...

@MayCaesar

 Your views remind me of a recent read of mine: "Notes from the Underground". Although not in a scientific way, the narrator (widely referred to as "The Underground Man") touches exactly on this subject. He claims that not every human will always act rationally when expected to because this will destroy their freedom in some sense. These people will do crazy things and end up even hurting themselves just to prove the point that they are not what society wants them to be. 

"Who wants to want according to a little table?"

 The Underground man basically argues that humans value exerting their own will more than they value reason. His masochistic tendencies illustrate this idea. He chooses to not see doctors for his toothaches because doing so would be submitting to the expectations of society. But I believe everyone has seen an example of this in their own lives. 

 My example for this would be something that I used to do a lot (I still do it from time to time, in less apparent ways). When a relative or a friend of mine assumed something about me, I would go mad and act contrary to their assumptions even though their assumption about me was actually correct. For example, if a friend said that they have bought tickets for a movie we were waiting for without asking me, I would shout at him and not go to that movie even if I had been waiting for it for a very long time. (Well, his assumption that I would want to see the movie is not even baseless here. He knew that I was waiting for the movie.) 

 The problem with The Underground Man's argument, though, is that he might be overestimating the amount of these people. Yes, they exist. But are their numbers high enough to affect a kind of "anarchist"-rationalist-utopia?

 But even if we somehow prove that their numbers are low, how can we be sure that this new environment will not cause an increase in the numbers?

 

@AlexOland

Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of my faves.

@AlexOland

Such a contrarian attitude can definitely take place, but I would not expect it to affect the society negatively long-term. It is good to have people in any society who defy the norms, push the societal comfort zone and force everyone to constantly reassess their actions and values, and it is a prerequisite for a truly free society. The day when people start regularly surprise each other in the everyday life is the day when we will make a big step towards uncompromised individual freedom.

Right now, even in the freest societies on Earth, we have a lot of conformity. The movie Dead Poets' Society is a very powerful piece in opposition to this phenomenon. When people are no longer afraid of the societal judgment and start acting in the way that truly represents their nature, then we will start achieving our full potential.

That said, of course there is an extreme, when someone does not just challenge the societal norms, but makes it a point to do everything backwards. A person will take every societal expectation and violate it, even if violation of it harms him/her directly. But I somehow doubt that such people will be numerous. If the history is any indication, it is the conformism that is truly widespread and hard to combat, while outliers have always been in the minority (pretty much by definition, for that matter).
Although, once conformism stops being prevalent, it might change. But I would expect the society by that point to be mature enough to not act like this in general.