MODR 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Moral Authority, Belief, Industrial Espionage
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Jake grew up in a passionately devoted religious community. He has been taught from a young age that an invisible, all-powerful god loves him. He was also taught that he will be blessed and protected as long as he accepts the scriptures as the unequivocal truth and adheres to the rules for life dictated in the holy book. Because jake always sought guidance from the holy book, he felt happy, safe and comfortable following the rituals and rouines prescribed in it. He thought that it would be a good place to raise a family, as the schools here did not teach anything that contradicted the holy book. During one paricularly hot summer, the federal meteorological service issued a severe hurricane warning, staing that a storm of unprecedented magnitude was forming near the coastline where jake has setled. Jake chose to believe in an unsubstaniated story over facts. Jake accepted ideas as the truth based on how they made him feel.
