Re: Free country?
There is a certain frame of mind that is always with us in society. It proliferates in organisations who have, or think they should have, the power to dictate what everyone else should think.
Most people go through that phase when they are young and see things in a simplistic fixed way. Some people never move past that phase. Unfortunately that apparent "certainty" can promote them into positions of institutional power.
Nothing encourages such behaviour in a wider population than the apparent promise of certainty and Infallibility.