Idiots. Idiots made them moral authorities. Why would anyone consider a professional liar as a moral authority? Do you think that elected officials are moral authorities? I don’t. I think they are representatives of the people and as such, they are supposed to just do what we tell them to do without a lot of their personal opinions mixed in. Unfortunately, that’s not where we actually are.
Actor Dan Blocker who played Hoss on Bonanza said he was often confronted by sincere fans who questioned him about his apparent home life with Adam and Ben Cartwright on the ranch.
He told them “I play a role using a script and we do the filming then I go to my own home.” Some would insist “No, I mean when you’re at home after work with Adam and Ben on the Ponderosa.”
Many fans asked Leonard Nimoy searching philosophical questions to get his tremendous Spock intelligence to solve them. Never could convince some that he only read a script on TV shows.