>They would actually have a consciousness instead of scandal after scandal because people would not just accept the system blindly Well let's not get too high

>They would actually have a consciousness instead of scandal after scandal because people would not just accept the system blindly Well let's not get too high on the general populations' ability for independent moral authority. We know the results of the Milgram experiments. And we also know about the massacres of Vietnam, caused by units of mostly drafted soldiers. The ability to break from authority is not as strong as we like to think. And I include myself in that group as well, I know my primate psychology.