I was a bit annoyed about the organized religion question too, for the same reason. I'm an extreme-liberal Christian, and I learned to think and evaluate through discussions of religion and philosophy around the dinner table with my dad. I defy anyone to tell me that because I'm still a Christian, I'm more susceptible to brainwashing than someone who is not. I think the author was showing a significant bias in that question.
The last thing the quiz failed to consider was how good people are at going with the flow. That's the real issue. Those of us who took the quiz and came up with the same result I did are, basically, in line with modern Western cultural values. We know it, and we're proud of it. Would we have been equally proud to be in line with the modern German values of the thirties? Would we have been just as likely to toe the line then as we do now? (I'm not saying we're following like sheep, of course. We follow these values because we've each arrived at them separately. But we did so at the behest of the huge majority of cultural influences in our lives. There's no saying we would have come to the same conclusions, given a different set of cultural mores.)
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The last thing the quiz failed to consider was how good people are at going with the flow. That's the real issue. Those of us who took the quiz and came up with the same result I did are, basically, in line with modern Western cultural values. We know it, and we're proud of it. Would we have been equally proud to be in line with the modern German values of the thirties? Would we have been just as likely to toe the line then as we do now? (I'm not saying we're following like sheep, of course. We follow these values because we've each arrived at them separately. But we did so at the behest of the huge majority of cultural influences in our lives. There's no saying we would have come to the same conclusions, given a different set of cultural mores.)