believe<\/em> it, is a vital attraction of the Satanic baby-killer mythology and its ethos.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2018\/02\/Darkness.jpg\")
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Yes, to outsiders \u2014 to those not playing along, this will make you appear to be a foolish blowhard.<\/p>\n
But insiders will agree with you. The others participating in the game will congratulate you on this hypothetical courage and imagined heroism because your self-flattery flatters them too. They will heartily agree that this is what you<\/em> would have done because that strengthens their own fantasy that this is what they<\/em> would have done. They will help you to almost believe it about yourself because doing so helps them to almost believe it about themselves.<\/p>\nYour self-proclaimed moral superiority grants them a vicarious moral superiority of their own, and you all get to praise one another for how splendid you look in these emperor\u2019s new clothes.<\/p>\n
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