Nowadays, she says, she repeats her instructions, and even conducts a reality check with some patients: she asks them to tell her what they think they're supposed to do.
Absolutely. The thing is, everyone knows what the problems are and environmentalists have a pretty good idea of what we should be doing about them, so they should be able to work together to some extent.
That is also true of people who, like your columnist, a guest Bartleby, more often suffer from the inverse affliction-having trouble putting things off even if they probably ought to be.
And for that reason, more and more people, he claimed, expected the society and that state to regulate what is and isn't permissible in personal relations.