Anybody can give "orders". Accepting and obeying those orders is another matter. You can obey every "order" given to you by every person you have contact with, or you can chose to live your life freely. It is your choice. I have a few "orders" for some members here. I hope they will be obeyed, but somehow expect them to be ignored. I suspect that many here are "ordered" around almost every day, by their wives, their children, and everybody else they deal with. Some people like "orders". It makes life much more simple when somebody makes all of your decisions for you. Others would rather make their own decisions. It is called liberty. I once had a friend call me. He was in the hospital and wanted to leave and wanted to know what to do. I told him that if he really wanted to leave, get up, put your pants on and start walking. He asked, "Can I do that"? I said that I wasn't sure if he could or not, it didn't sound like he could. Not because he wasn't allowed to, it just seemed that he was incapable of actually doing it. He said that "they" told him that he "couldn't" leave. I told him to be outside in 15 mins. and I'd be there to pick him up. When I showed up he said that "they" "made him sign some papers" and I asked how they had "made" him do it. He said they told him he had to and he did it. SMH Some of us have allowed ourselves to be pushed around and now are incapable of asserting ourselves. We are so compliant that we have lost sovereignty over our own lives.