That’s a nice article. This line stood out to me: This commitment arose from their conversion experiences and their gradual, conditioned acceptance of ethical

That’s a nice article. This line stood out to me: This commitment arose from their conversion experiences and their gradual, conditioned acceptance of ethical misbehavior. I don’t have a formal definition of “brainwashing”. That term, to me, is akin to gradual, conditioned acceptance. From my reading of the article the author and I seem to have different perceptions of what the word “brainwashing” means. He does say that people are moving away from the term “brainwashing” and using terms like “coercive persuasion”. This line too stood out to me: We don’t say that soldiers are brainwashed to kill other people; that’s basic training. I actually would say that soldiers are brainwashed. I use that term in a colloquial sense. I use in the sense of the video linked to below. Let me state my question in a different way, does gradual, conditioned acceptance change one’s brain in any significant way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n2gryg9Yvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n2gryg9Yvk