| That sounds dangerous as hell. No one should live that way. If you aren't allowed to question leadership and are instead expected to do "what you are told", then all the experiments and horrors studies on group think are a reality at a dangerous level [1][2][3] What if you think an order is dangerous and have good reasons why? Good leadership needs to know what the ground-level knows, they need good input and questioning. Stalin killed anyone who opposed or questioned him, so all of the input and feedback was only positive feedback/intel to avoid being killed. Even when they were setting up one of the worst famines in recorded history [4]. Healthy societies aren't cults, and that is definitely a description of a cult. I hate a Godwin-Law argument, but the damn Nazi's "did what they were told" [5], and those 'hard-working'-don't-question-leadership lemmings had a blind-eye to/assisted and/or murdered millions of people because they didn't have to deal with the burden of questioning and thinking for themselves. Fuck that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment [2] https://www.prisonexp.org/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%93... [5] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-the-nazis-defense-o... |