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In that case, I would expect them to reverse their rejection in the case of sufficient peer pressure, but this is frequently not the case.
Now I really do want to systematically test how people rejecting the dilemma respond to peer pressure. I've spent a great deal of time watching others deal with this particular dilemma , but my experience isn't systematically gathered or well documented.
In retrospect, I should have held off on making this post until gathering that data; I wrote it up more in frustration at dealing with the same situation again than out of a desire to be informative, and I feel like I should probably have taken a karma hit for that.
Unless, of course, they're willing to put up with some short-term hassling to avoid long-term problems. Given that either answer could be taken out of context and used against them by all the people currently applying that pressure, there's no point (short of, say, locking them in a room and depriving them of sleep for an extended period of time, which is really a whole different kettle of fish) where answering the question becomes preferable.