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Hard-coded slave morality rules supreme 'round these parts. For most of recorded history, Estonians were land-bound serfs lorded over by a Germanic elite. Under this sort of strict arrangement, the single best thing you could hope to achieve in life was to be promoted to an indoor servant who didn't have to plow the field and might've even gotten to snack on leftovers from the master's dinner table every now and then. Sure, you were still a serf but the ever-so-slight increase in status gave you the ability to smugly look down on those stuck doing difficult agricultural work. But how would get such a position? Easy, by being a snitch and sycophant who throws his peers under the proverbial bus and always sides with the master. Now fast forward several centuries and what do we see? Estonia's ruling class enacting stupid policies and throwing their people under the bus time and time again because Brussels or D.C. told them to. All due to the ingrained notion that only by being a yes man and groveling to a foreign authority figure can you get somewhere in life. Many such cases!