Schrödinger's PratIf a giant flaming meteor was coming to wipe out all life on earth and, through some magical convoluted and utterly insane mechanism, the only way to stop it was for everyone on earth to buy one fewer sock each year, we'd be instantly flooded with thousands of people proudly bragging on the Internet about how they're now going to buy hundreds of socks *right now* because the libs can't tell them what to do.
Matt T.@Rhodium103 There would also be thousands of people writing op-eds about how socks are typically sold in packs of two, and it is simply unrealistic to expect people to buy TWO fewer socks each year; more in sorrow than in anger, they would accuse the anti-meteor crowd of being elitist and out of touch with real earthlings, and insist that the only possible solution is direct sock capture (current technology being capable of removing one sock from the world per week, but only when fueled by twenty other socks purchased for that purpose)