Is that desired behavior in CouchDB? If replication will refuse to change anyone else's copy of that document, changing my own copy merely desynchronizes my rep

Is that desired behavior in CouchDB? If replication will refuse to change anyone else's copy of that document, changing my own copy merely desynchronizes my replica and deceives myself about the true state of the world. I would prefer the system know which changes would be rejected elsewhere, and stop me from making them in the first place.