conforming

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

I__ assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.