Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/I missed the end of the semantic quibbling.../reply (3)

I just realized that you might have been talking about this. Were you? Because that was a rhetorical question to illustrate an altogether different point, viz., that very large numbers of people, a statistically significant number in fact, do not do everything they are told, even by a faceless abstraction like "society." We see this today with, for example, women who elect, in the face of what they describe as strong "social" pressures, not to take employment.