He quickly chafes against his surroundings, reading instead of playing with other children, and rejecting the church in favor of atheism at a young age.
Confocal microscopy summarizes as imaging/resolving a thin slice through an object and rejecting out of focus light that comes from outside this slice.
Other families choose double-barrelled names for egalitarian reasons, rejecting the patriarchal custom of consistently passing on only the father's name on principle.
In other words, minimal deterrence requires rejecting a counterforce strategy in favor of pursuing survivable force that can be used in a countervalue second strike.
Some psychologists use confirmation bias to refer to the tendency to avoid rejecting beliefs, while searching for evidence, interpreting it, or recalling it from memory.