The answer comes down to two types of logic, according to a behavioral scientist.
are required to create and maintain an authoritarian regime. To ensure that we make the"right" personal choices, an oppressive state's main tools are carrots and sticks—rewarding conformity and punishing even a hint of rebellion.
Regimes therefore supplement rewards and punishments with self-policed norms, rules and conventions. A"good" party comrade or a member of a religious cult or terrorist group will learn that they are supposed to obey orders, root out opposition and not question authority—and enforce these norms on their fellows.
This can certainly help explain the horrors of Nazi Germany—showing it's not primarily a matter of individual evil. As the philosopher Hannah, the atrocities of the Holocaust were made possible by normal people, manipulated into conforming to a horribly abnormal set ofA woman dressed as a character from the novel-turned-TV series The Handmaid's Tale walks through the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, on September 4, 2018.
If so, we would expect a tendency to adopt non-standard norms to be linked to verbal ability and perhaps general intelligence in individuals who actually rebel,How we react to unfairness may also affect our propensity to rebel. One study found that people who are risk averse and easily trust others are less likely to. While not proven in the study, it may make such individuals more likely to conform.
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