why do people believe their goverment when it tells them a country is its enemy and should be atacked?

Question

why do people believe their goverment when it tells them a country is its enemy and should be atacked. Dont goverments lie

Answer 1

We are afraid and lame; plus we are not sure of anything. We hope and prey that our government is telling us the truth and protecting us!!!!

Answer 2

Of course governments lie. They lie for the same reasons that a parent lies to his children when he wants them to go to bed, or for the same reason a man lies to a woman in order to persuade her to go to bed with him.

They lie in order to get what they want.

Nation-states developed thousands of years ago out of groups of people who banded together to protect themselves against the depredations of belligerent neighbors. The word for "stranger" in some primitive societies was the same as the word for "enemy." With such a mindset it's easy to see how a nation's people can adopt a "them or us" attitude, especially when a foreign people have a radically different culture and espouse a religion different from that of the people in power.

Government uses this primitive fear and distrust of strangers to get the people on their side.

"We" (as a nation), therefore, HAVE to be better than "them" (the foreigners) because otherwise, everything we'd been told about "them" would not necessarily be true and we, as a people, would have to admit that we screwed up for having elected those who are lying to us.

So when a government announces that a foreign country is bad and doing bad things, the people would rather believe them than not. We want to trust elected officials, even when we suspect they're not being above-board and open about the REAL reasons for their decision. If we didn't WANT to trust those who the majority have elected, we would have to admit that most of us (i.e., the majority of the electorate) are sheep and not intelligent enough to think for ourselves.

And so the government, who treats its citizens like they're ignorant and can't think for themselves, is content to do the people's thinking for them. The government regulates and regulates and continually tells its citizens what to do, for the betterment of society. They believe -- rightly in most cases -- that citizens are too concerned with their own petty personal affairs to bother about political decision-making. And the government has a point: look how few people care enough to vote!

So governments, in order to get their way -- whether in pursuit of oil or glory or a misplaced sense of duty -- lie to us. If they didn't lie to us, the people wouldn't let them get away with whatever they want to do.

Answer 3

you're unfastened to be certain directly to or to not placed on seatbelts and helmets. your individual possibilities do impact human beings. in case you have been to circulate out on a motorbike without helmet and die your loved ones might grieve for you. Your irresponsiblity might impact human beings. Society is laid low with human beings making irresponsible possibilities. The taxpayers finally end up paying scientific charges of people who did not placed on seatbelts or helmets. insurance won't pay all appropriate charges and the sufferers finally end up medically destitute. i might placed on seatbelts no count if there became right into a regulation or not. it rather is a controversy of person-friendly sense. some human beings have not got any person-friendly sense and thanks to this there's a regulation. i don't prefer to pay on your foolishness and irresponsibility. because of the fact of this I help such rules. deadly and crippling injuries are rather common to keep away from.

Answer 4

Your Government never lies.
NEVER!!!




Okay, maybe Saddam didn't have Weapons Of Mass Destruction.
But, maybe he hid them so well that only he can find them.

In my opinion, you should only trust your government if you believe what they are doing is right.
If you don't think it is right, well then speak up.

Answer 5

The reason we have governments is that there's someone whose job is to protect our best interests. Governments are ELECTED by us. So, they represent us. If we choose the wrong people to lead us, than that's it! "Each people has the government it deserves". If the government is stupid, liar and cheat so must have been the ones that elected it.

Answer 6

If you don't believe our governments list of enemies I challenge you to go and live there like you live in America. Yes, please go to Mexico and forget your I.D. when you go somewhere. Please go to Afghanistan and walk around for atleast 15-20 minutes. When you have done that come back and tell us about it. We as miltary people fight so you can say stupid things.

Answer 7

Yes, governments lie. So do angry people named ANN.

My daughter's name is Anne.
She is an English teacher.
You would probably not like her.

Answer 8

You still believe the government?????????????? head for the religion section--they're always looking for miracles!

Answer 9

Cuz of Bush's is dumb and people believe rednecks

Answer 10

because they have more information than any one person has (combined from the FBI, CIA, NSA etc) and they have technology that can monitor anyone in the world. (eschelon)

so in THEORY they seem reliable...