Why

[sabotabby]

Do governments think loyalty oaths are effective? Is it some sort of holdover from when people thought that magic words had some sort of supernatural power?

If I were, uh, disloyal, I'd just lie, because magic words are meaningless, and because I'm being forced to do so. In fact, I implicitly lie about a magical song every morning.

Comments

[lienne.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, I take promises seriously, but the magic words lose all their power when somebody else is making you say them. So it doesn't even work for people who have integrity!