This reminds me of the Milgram experiment on how obedient people are to authority, when told to follow orders.
"One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.
Milgram (1963) examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors....."
]Click on the link to read the whole article:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
So sad to see us divided again, as if race, gender, religion, orientation...etc was not enough.
"65% (two-thirds) of participants (i.e., teachers) continued to the highest level of 450 volts. All the participants continued to 300 volts."
The experiment was duplicated again in France in 2010 and the results were even worse (male and female included this time):
"In Milgram's case, 62% of participants obeyed abject orders; with television it's 81%. Therefore you have to ask yourself a question which is more than about submission to an authority, but about the power of a system, a global system, which is television."
https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/milgram_french_reality_show.html