Re:The flawed psychology of government mass surveillance
by jacquesm on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @06:55AM
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That's a strange but very interesting observation. Add a little anecdotal evidence, the religious people that I know on balance seem more predisposed to the line 'if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear' than the non-believers. Before you wrote your comment I would not have ascribed any significance to that correlation, now I'm not so sure.
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Re:The flawed psychology of government mass surveillance
by dalke on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @02:17PM
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As the article pointed out, "if members of a team felt a common social identity with their leader then surveillance in fact reduced the leader's influence by fostering resentment and distrust. However, if they saw their leader as belonging to a social outgroup then surveillance increased the leader's power."
In your anecdote, do the religious people see themselves as being in the same social group as the president or other powerful members of government?
To start, does the list of religious people you've talked include many non-Christians?