[Mr Ramsbotham]

I think I agree. No one should ever violate the orders of an authority figure. If the Rev. Jim Jones says to drink the Kool-Aid, then by God, you should drink the Kool-Aid. If you disagree with the request, you should drink the Kool-Aid first, then discuss it with your parents later when they come to visit.

Your sarcasm is infantile, relativistic, and completely misplaced. The same "logic" could be applied to an office worker who spits at his supervisor when asked to perform a task he doesn't agree with.

[FreedomCalls]

The same "logic" could be applied to an office worker who spits at his supervisor when asked to perform a task he doesn't agree with.

You are the one painting the whole world in either stark black or stark white terms. There are degrees of compliance with anything. My example (which seems to have sailed completely over your head) is to illustrate that you can't accept blind obedience to authority at all times -- which you seem to advocate. Likewise blind disobedience at all times is equally bad. The world is not bland or white, nor even shades of gray, it's multicolored. Your strawman arguments and simplistic view of life are actually what are "infantile and completely misplaced."

[FreedomCalls]

So you agree that no one should have resisted at Jonestown?