I think this is most people. People do not verify very much for themselves - they do not know 'if it is true'. They are told a story, believe that story and e

I think this is most people. People do not verify very much for themselves - they do not know 'if it is true'. They are told a story, believe that story and even call it knowledge. The story itself need have nothing to do with reality, and worse, it may have been placed there to intentionally to mislead. With a false story it is but a small hop to doing evil but calling it useful and good. I won't give any modern examples cos of the downvotes, but think of the stories we are given of Christians destroying non-Christian cultures because they believed they were doing God's work. The principle is that their stories allowed them to believe themselves to be true, useful, good, even as they slaughtered the natives. Their culture feted them. I think this principle of being misled by false stories holds through to today. A false story (premise/assumption) allows individuals/groups to accept a para-logic and para-morality despite the evidence of one's senses.