Threatening someone with consequences if they perform some action may not prevent them from doing what they are determined to do, but it will dissuade many. The

Threatening someone with consequences if they perform some action may not prevent them from doing what they are determined to do, but it will dissuade many. The entire basis of modern society and law is built on the idea of threatening people if they break the law, rather than completely preventing them from doing anything illegal. This is not control in, say, the unix permissions sense, but it's control in common parlance. What are you actually trying to say here?