Antisocial

== joeldavisLast Sunday at 4:16 PM ==
a good way to draw the social/antisocial distinction would be to posit a set of imperatives that authorize acting in a particular manner and then determining whether they fail to cohere with the constellation of imperatives (explicit or implicit) that make the particular social scene possible within which such acts are embedded.
E.g. say we're out at the pub having a few pints with the lads, I lean over and tell you to do a round of shots with us. At first you refuse and in response I call you a pussy and insist you knock some shots back with us.
Now, in the context of us being a group of potential colleagues bonding as bros before we embark upon some kind of team project, it would be right for me to demand that you participate and for you to not be a pussy and do as I tell you, because the imperative to participate in good faith in team-bonding in order to increase group morale and productivity must be obeyed to help produce a shared scene of cooperation. 
However, if I put the same imperatives to you at your 2 year old's birthday party, they would obviously fail to cohere with the imperatives that condition that particular scenario.(edited)
So, to be social is to he acting in coherence with the imperatives (both explicit and implicit) that condition a scene of coordinated social performance. To be antisocial is to be transgressing against these conditions.+
Etymologyantisocial (adj.) also anti-social, "unsocial, averse to social intercourse," 1797, from anti- + social (adj.). Meaning "hostile to social order or norms" is from 1802. Other, older words in the "disinclined to or unsuited for society" sense include dissocial (1762), dissociable (c. 1600).Etymonline.
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