I find it incredible and frankly, morally repugnant, that so many Mormons supported Bush and the war just because their church leaders told them to. Further, they continued to support it merely out of obedience rather than out of any real conviction, as this sharp drop in suppor seems to show.
Isn't this a case of people not owning their own morality, as Ringo has said?
This really is how many people go through life.
Read the on-line book listed in
The Authoritarians for some discussion on it.
This may not be directly related to the topic, but I like the results from the "Global Change Game" chapter 1) as an example of what can result from this kind of thinking:
quote:
By carefully organizing sign-up booklets, I was able to get 67 low RWA students to play the game together on October 18th . (They had no idea they had been funneled into this run of the experiment according to their RWA scale scores; ...) ...
Regions set to work on their individual problems. Swords were converted to ploughshares as the number of armies in the world dropped. No wars or threats of wars occurred during the simulation.
The next night 68 high RWAs showed up for their ride, just as ignorant of how they had been funneled into this run of the experiment as the low RWA students ... A nuclear holocaust ensued which killed everyone on earth--7.4 billion people--and almost all other forms of life which had the misfortune of co-habitating the same planet as a species with nukes.
There's a moral lesson for you.
Enjoy.
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