@... purple banana

It’s not the zebra that splits from the pack that gets eaten: the lions identify the weak, injured or old, and separate them from the pack. So you can be part of the pack and still get dicked over by a lion, which is how a lot of Bush backers are feeling these days.

And I believe that the sheep metaphor concerns the matter of thinking for yourself, which would include stopping at a red light, not because someone else does, but because you’re smart enough as an individual to not drive into an intersection against the light. And I could refer to people who go to jobs from 8-5 every day as sheep, but they all drive different cars, so are they sheep or aren’t they? The context of the metaphor goes beyond legality such as red lights and heavy traffic, so your examples are specious.