Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking?
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 days agoCheck the story! They knew they were going to die. That was the point. He told them. He told them exactly what was up and they consented. Their minds were so twisted by his lies that they couldn’t imagine any other life. That’s what drinking the koolaid means: you subscribe to a belief wholeheartedly, even a crazy one, to the point where youd rather die than question it.
Hawke@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s what I said too, which is to say that the point is not the killing but the unquestioning nature of it.