Can fear erode logic?

I'm "replying" to my own post. I wrote the above before having watched the video. I was familiar with most of the experiments discussed there, but it was good to have a "refresher course," so to speak.

I think the #1 social situation that makes the other dangerous events possible is religion. Religion automatically puts people into this or that group, making everyone else an "outsider." There is no need or even WANT of logic when belonging to such a group, which hands down dogma that everyone in the group is supposed to take as is, without question. The indoctrination starts with very young children and continues ever afterward. People who have been brought up in any strict religion, IN MY EXPERIENCE, grew up in families where there was a strong triangular power structure, i.e. Father is at the top - chief boss, his word is Law, and no one better question it. At the bottom are the children, who must simply obey the rules and not question the Father. This breeds the kind of blind acceptance and obedience that most religions require, as do all MILITARY groups. Later on, this tends to show up in one's politics. Such people rarely cross into traditional liberal or Democratic territory, which tends to encourage the questioning of authority, or even the actual rebellion against it. The #2 social situation is race/skin color. No need to explain that. The #3 social situation is politics. The #4 is nationalism.

Let's not forget that the all-time, universal, #1 "OUT" group is animals. Because they are SO "out" (using the video's terminology), every human social group feels free to kill them, eat them, enslave them, abuse them, or whatever, with few, if any, consequences. It also provides the opportunity for any group to try to denigrate other human groups by calling them such names as "pigs" (ignoring, of course, the fact that pigs are intelligent, sensitive, and with clean personal hygiene habits.) Animals are every human group's kicking ball, every human group's victims.

I think the only hope for us is if children are encouraged to question most rules, with their parents being ready to explain, using LOGIC, why those rules are in place. If the parent can't do that, then the rule shouldn't exist. Rote, automatic, blind obedience is the bane of civilization, and shouldn't be encouraged except in life-or-death situations, such as following the rules of the road when driving, being in a fire drill, etc.) An additional solution would be to stop using/abusing/eating animals, but I have little hope of most humans becoming perceptive and sensitive enough to do that. Animals are just so easy to take advantage of.

Anyway, I thank Latrice very much for posting an exceptionally interesting, profound question, along with the video to illustrate examples. Bravo, Latrice!