HSRP-588
Real persecution mixes the forms: in a German police battalion and in Rwanda many killed without believing their victims guilty, out of fear, conformity and pressure from their own side.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
Real persecution mixes the forms: in a German police battalion and in Rwanda many killed without believing their victims guilty, out of fear, conformity and pressure from their own side.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, OTHER NAMES › What the names add, and what they don't. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W4a-4.
3. What it rests on
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The two forms hold and break in different ways (see WHAT A HIVE MIND IS, on /the-hive-mind), and real persecution mixes them: in a German police battalion and in Rwanda, many killed without believing their victims guilty, out of fear, conformity and pressure from their own side [SRC-853] [SRC-854].
Source: none linked in the register
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
No source is linked to this observation in the register.
5. Counter-evidence
No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.
6. Why this grade
The argument for this grade has not yet been recorded for this observation.
The register defines PROBABLE as: Well supported, but an interpretation or connection across sources rather than something a source states directly.
7. Correction history
8. Related observations
- HSRP-313 · ESTABLISHED · Perceptual recalibration under identity pressure. Conformity is associated with alterations in occipital-parietal networks responsible for spatial and visual perception rather than in decision-making regions.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-323 · PROBABLE · One Condition, Many Names. Twenty-four independent observers across roughly four thousand years, no shared vocabulary. Individual attestations ESTABLISHED; that they describe one mechanism, PROBABLE.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-412 · AUTHOR'S POSITION · THE AUTHOR'S DETERMINATION (the author's position): the line has been crossed. The author sets the model of institutionalized necrophilia beside the research as a determinant condition. His argument: a government that claims to rule a people because they cannot rule themselves, citing their immorality, must draw from that same stock the individuals who decide how it acts; absent morality within the institution, and having embodied the necrophilia harbored in the individuals of the population, the government is in a position and on a trajectory to devolve, and has thus crossed the line. Texts set beside the argument, each established as a text: Jefferson's First Inaugural (1801), Plato's Republic VIII, Federalist No. 55, John Adams to the Massachusetts Militia (1798) and Polybius VI.9. Necrophilia is Erich Fromm's term for an orientation of character in a person (Fromm, "Creators and Destroyers", 1964); its application to institutions is this project's model, and none of the texts quoted establishes that model. Polybius's own caution is kept: the stage of decline can be read, the time cannot, so the page names no date. The duty that follows is stated as the author's: to act on that knowledge, righteously and by lawful means, under a judgment that belongs to God (Acts 5:29); Nuremberg Principle IV is cited as a parallel only. The site's rule stands beside it: this is a moral judgment and no defense in any court (United States v. Benabe).Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-426 · WORKING · A hive mind is a consensus held because the group holds it, not because each member judged it for himself. The test is how a view is held, not what it says.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-428 · PROBABLE · A hive's view shifts with the audience: voiced under the group's eye, softened or doubted in private (marker M2). Public compliance is not proof of belief.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-585 ·
WITHDRAWN· Every row of the author's table of other names is an independent observer.Relation: not recorded - HSRP-587 · WORKING · The names in the author's table name different things: a line held in public and doubted in private, belief held sincerely, defenses inside one mind and, in Forbes's wétiko, exploitation rather than conformity.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-589 · OPEN QUESTION · If the named phenomena prove to be different things sharing only a family resemblance, the table overstates the convergence; a study measuring several of them in the same people and groups is not yet found; not yet known whether it will be foundRelation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“Real persecution mixes the forms: in a German police battalion and in Rwanda many killed without believing their victims guilty, out of fear, conformity and pressure from their own side — PROBABLE”
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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"title": "Real persecution mixes the forms: in a German police battalion and in Rwanda many killed without believing their victims guilty, out of fear, conformity and pressure from their own side.",
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"note": "Cited on: /the-hive-mind, OTHER NAMES › What the names add, and what they don't. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W4a-4.",
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}Generated from hsrp-research-notes.json (register generated 2026-10-13). Nothing on this page is written by hand. 15 fields not yet recorded.