(HCOB 10 MAY 1972 . . . )
NEEDING ORDERS
The exact mechanism of needing orders is to be found as an outgrowth of the mental condition outlined in HCOB 28 Nov 1970, PSYCHOSIS. [EDIT: ie, people needing orders are insane]
The individual with an evil purpose has to withhold himself because he may do destructive things.
When he fails to withhold himself he commits overt acts on his fellows or other dynamics and occasionally loses control and does so.
This of course makes him quite inactive.
To overcome this he refuses any responsibility for his own actions.
Any motion he makes must be on the responsibility of others.
He operates then only when given orders.
Thus he must have orders to operate.
Therefore one could term such a person a robot. And the malady could be called robotism . . .