That is a common cognitive mistake.Beyond that, let's face it... a lot of people ARE sheep who only regurgitate whatever opinions are fed to them by other people.
In terms of the success of your actions (how 'right' they are) being full blown "sheep" and full blown "independent thinker" would be effectively the same thing.
Every single dictator thinks that he knows better then everyone else.
Every single totalitarian dictator, who terrorizes his subjects - telling them what they can and cannot say, who they can love, how they can dress, what they should buy and where they can walk - all of it because, obviously, he knows everything better then everyone, he wouldn't make mistakes and he doesn't need to listen to anyone.
He is not sheep.
And he doesn't need some idiotic sheep to mess up a whole country on some 'elections' or whatnot.
That is also the logic of democratically elected politicians, who then go and ignore the will of people who elected them.
And of course the feudal failed-states are full of "independent thinkers".
Truth is, everyone works with insufficient information. EVERY action you make IS a mistake - in a sense that given enough time and information you always can make a better choice.
Both you and me included.
Listening to other people when you don't know what's going on - and we never know perfectly what's going on - is a very important instinct, that actually allows our society to somewhat function and not fall apart completely.
So yeah.
Sheep<----------------->Independent Thinkers.
It's a scale.
And both extremes are, surprisingly, equally bad.
And should be treated as equal.
That is so common, there's an actual term for it:You're also trying to lay all the blame on Laura for the whole madness, when Harry absolutely has a lot of blame on his head too. In fact, he has the most blame, given that he's the one that opened the gate for Luca in the first place, no matter how you look at it.
Victim-blaming.
"She wore such a skirt - what was she expecting? She's practically invited him to rape her."
Laura was a victim, weakling and an idiot - but that's not why she deserves the 'blame'.
It's because later she conspired and took part in Luca's plans as an accomplice.
Ironically, some of the suggestions in this thread from our zealous fans - for Harry to "man-up" and "stop being such a pussy" - could've indeed shift a blame at him.
For disproportional retaliation.
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