These people--called the "toothbrush set" because they're ready to pack quickly and take off--are in no way blamed by the majority who have no way of getting out. "If you can go, then go," urged a magazine editor who said he is one of the ones who can't. "If you're able to go and don't--that's what people would think is weird."
對「牙刷主義」的奉行者，走不了的港人並不義憤填膺，也不會以任何理由指責，「有本領就走」，一位自認「走不了」的成人雜誌總編輯以廣東話夾著國語說：「要是你能走，卻不走，別人才會覺得奇怪。」