Everyone wants to agree with the majority, it’s so subtle and so effective.
The tests they do with people are amazing, have you ever seen where people will be told to give shocks to strangers if they answer questions wrong, even knowing they are giving potentially fatal shocks, many people will still do it.
They did tests where people thought they were seeing what everyone else thought, they would go against their better judgement and agree with the majority no matter how outrageous or evil the answers were.
People are easily manipulated, unfortunately. Hitler was no anamoly.
You are correct about the desire for peace and consensus, and about the ease of manipulation of the human psyche. We all have some worldview or other, which provides a two-part framework for information organization: an external, canonical faith-based framework (like Christianity), and an internal one: our noëtic structure (the sum of all of our experiences, Pavlov exemplified this part in dogs).
We've learned it is more pleasant to agree and bind together into a "herd" (safety and security in numbers). This security lends us to turn a blind eye to true and unfathomable attricities and acts of violence.
Starvation is one.
The homeless are another.
Abortion - unspeakable violence to little people - is a biggie.
War and injustice, slavery and segregation - these, too, were and are soft-pedaled in certain circles in the interest of retaining the general peace.
The personal cost of standing for what we know to be right from the canonical/moral portion of our worldview stands against the possibility of discomfort or persecution against which our noëtic framework warns.
Gosh, I've written a small tome here. Ambien is having its effect, and immediately before the sleep overpowers the body, the mind is filled with deep thoughts.
Let's talk more later.