Just ask the people who made one compromise . . . which made the next compromise easier . . . which led to lots of compromises - which ultimately cost them treasures such as their virginity, their reputation, their freedom, their parents' trust, their closeness to God. Most of us are puppets in the hands of the people we want to please - who are puppets in the hands of the people they want to please . . . Most of us start out as Play-Doh, easily molded by the people around us. The formula has four steps. When you choose your uniform once and for all, people will finally quit trying to get you to desert to the other side - and the pressure will decrease.
Inconsistency increases peer pressure.
A doctor friend of ours was amazed the day his teenage son asked if he could borrow a sport coat and pants of his to wear to school. Dad was really flattered - until his son told him why . . . Oh, it's Geek Day at school, Dad. Actually, most young people are not very interested in wearing their parents' clothes - the clothes probably would not even fit. The difference between firsthand and secondhand beliefs is like the difference between skin and clothes.