>Society as a majority, at some point, wanted these drugs illegal. Can it be said that a heterogenous network of entities "wants" something if some particular

>Society as a majority, at some point, wanted these drugs illegal. Can it be said that a heterogenous network of entities "wants" something if some particular clusters of entities inside the network are able to influence its consensus? I think that the phrase "society wants" is absolutely meaningless in overwhelming majority of contexts.