But if you're being pedantic, discipline usually isn't defined with respect to willpower. It's defined with respect to control. To be clearer -- consistency a

But if you're being pedantic, discipline usually isn't defined with respect to willpower. It's defined with respect to control. To be clearer -- consistency and discipline aren't exactly the same, but you get consistency in human behavior via discipline. Technically the original poster was correct. What the pedant did required discipline. The pedant saying that it wasn't discipline was actually not even technically correct. By attempting to be pedantic he actually said something that wasn't even technically true. Now what you're saying is that there is some other behavior that might be implied by the term discipline, which is a prolonged test of willpower. This technically is not in any definition of discipline I've seen. I'd argue that if you're going to be a pedant, you at least need to be right.