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This is something I wrote after reading a section of "The Wind and the Willows".
I feel that an unsensible person can be taught sensibility. When people are born, they start with a clean slate. With this, people can be taught new. I also believe that sensibility is an instinct to humans. Once under the control of laws and rules, acting controlled is not something uncommonplace to society.
Society is constantly subjected to codes and laws. These rules and laws limit the type of behavior a person can display. The rules we are put under have the ability to permanently alter the way we behave in the world, from the time we are infants, to our elder years. It is these rules that teach sensibility, rather than sensible people teaching unsensible people. Laws and rules are now our teachers.
Humans have made the standards for sensible behavior. Now, children and adults have had their minds set to what our society believes is sensible. In this way, sensibility is instinctual. Conformity eventually subjugates any opposition.

I wrote this a few months ago, but looking back I realize that most of that is not true. What about anarchists, who oppose against conformity? Codes and laws mean nothing to them generally. It really is not about society's rules, but our own.
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