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"Socially disallowed" is not a thing that can be implied through "can't" though, as that's just a convention and courtesy. OP probably would like to have the l
by jabbany 4y ago
"Socially disallowed" is not a thing that can be implied through "can't" though, as that's just a convention and courtesy.
OP probably would like to have the legal guarantee, but it's a fight that's still in-progress.
- JadeNB 4y ago> "Socially disallowed" is not a thing that can be implied through "can't" though …. You are actually implicitly doing it right there! A slight re-wording of your post is "'Socially disallowed' can't be implied through 'can't'" … meaning that it is socially/linguistically unable to be so implied (though I disagree), not legally or technically so. And of course there are tons of other examples—when I say that "you can't just [do that thing]", I very often mean it is socially unacceptable to do it, not that it is illegal or technically impossible to do it.
- jabbany 4y agoI mean if the goal is "Socially disallowed" it should be "shouldn't". "Can't" implies some kind of enforcement/compelling force preventing that, either from nature, or some authority (a nation state, a workplace superior, a parent of a child etc.). As much as we might want it, society doesn't act as an authority for this kind of stuff...
- dragonwriter 4y agoSocial sanction is an enforcement mechanism.