Cults --- Perhaps cults are the example par exellence of collective manipulation for an evil purpose.

"If you fully submit yourself to the cause X or Z/God, you are building your salvation/humanity's salvation" (submitting meaning reliquinshing goods, your body, etcetera). "Your resignation to X or Y (rape by the leader, for instance) is the atonement for your sins".

We can also find so many examples of collective manipulation along history, some are still very recent and ongoing. Then again, the relevance of ethics.

Source author: Liliana Oliva Bernal loliva@sre.gob.mx