Where you're bossily told not to do something, but your autocratical orderer doesn't have any other ideas of what you should do instead.
I personally don't allow anyone to direct any one-sided forbidding in my direction... if someone imperiously demands that I not perform a certain action which I feel is harmless and/or necessary, I calmly ask said dictatorial blow-hard what I should do instead, and if he says, "Well, I have no idea, but don't do THAT!", I disgustedly wave him off and reply, "Well, until you do come with an alternative action to suggest to me, I am gonna continue with my method whether you like it or not --- you can't just go around telling people not to do stuff unless you know of some other reasonable course of action to suggest to him instead!"
by QuacksO February 13, 2020