one must be a SHEEP ...............

The attempts to convince others is a mark of insecurity.... a man with the mind is always independent of the good opinion of others...

" When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is YOUR OWN ” - Mandy Hale


In order to be able to be an irreproachable member of the herd, one must, above all, be a sheep
- Albert Einstein, “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck” (1953)

Argumentum ad populum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

When many people in general or of a particular group accept a belief as true is presented as evidence for the claim. Accepting many people’s beliefs, without demanding evidence as to why that person accepts the belief, is lazy thinking and a dangerous way to accept information.It was people like Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler, who refused to appeal to the common belief and uncovered a truth not obvious to the rest of humanity

• Why did they house arrest & Torture Galileo?
• why did Michael Servetus got Burned at the stake ?
• Aren't they Majority who burned alive Raja Ram Mohan Roy's Brother's wife on her husband's Funeral pyre? (if I use the word " widow/s " you might bring chanikya neethi etc & say women are #### people on earth...so I have specifically mentioned about his sister in law who had her brand of honesty, ethics, purity etc all her life )
• Weren't they the Majority who cruelly punished & crucified Jesus?
• Weren't Kauravas the Majority in Kaurava-Pandava Yuddh ?

Logical Form:

A lot of people believe X.

Therefore, X must be true. How can so many be wrong at the same time?

Example :

Up until the late 16th century, most people believed that the earth was the center of the universe.  This, of course, is not true.

Earth remained Geoid even when all people of the world THEN believed that its Flat

" If the majority of the people were abnormal, then 

the "abnormal" will be called normal and vice-versa "

The Bandwagon Effect :

Are we going to think for ourselves?

The bandwagon effect is a phenomenon whereby people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their own beliefs, which they may ignore or override

Even the greatest teachers and experts make mistakes. Be your own teacher and evaluate what is important to you - never take a teaching at face value - zen stories

courtesy :
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herd_mentality

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/24/Appeal-to-Common-Belief

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/stronger-the-broken-places/201708/the-bandwagon-effect