Posted on 01/23/2009 11:52:41 AM PST by rabscuttle385
"a kind of ecclesiastical Stockholm Syndrome" is the first. Which is more or less what I was driving at earlier when I talked about paralysis and how the plausible leaders of a bad organization can rope you in before you know where you're at, but much better and more elegantly expressed and driving at the real root of the matter -- an emotional reaction to being taken hostage.
The second is the idea of virtues being perverted to vices when used in a wrong cause. It's ringing a faint bell with me, something out of C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce . . . the man and the lizard, perhaps.
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