answer:Pack mentality. If nobody questions arbitrary “authority”, well..remember the psych experiments in the 50’s where the sheeple shocked each other on command and only one or two rare birds refused to participate? Happens all the time on a “personal” level too. I always joke about our private road ” committee” in my area, where there is ALWAYS one self appointed tribal chief that pounds the others into submission. This asshat has now decided he wants to change the NAME of our little road because he has lived here the longest and has never liked the name. I told him to go for it, and he can do all the fucking paperwork to change addresses for the other 3 of us that live on this road.