Mad River Behavioral Health: F-Scale

[1] Obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children should learn.

[2] A person who has bad manners, habits, and breeding can hardly expect to get along with decent people.

[3] If people would talk less and work more, everybody would be better off.

[4] The business man and the manufacturer are much more important to society than the artist and the professor.

[5] Science has its place, but there are many important things that can never be understood by the human mind.

[6] Every person should have complete faith in some supernatural power whose decisions he obeys without question.

[7] Young people sometimes get rebellious ideas, but as they grow up they ought to get over them and settle down.

[8] What this country needs most, more than laws and political programs, is a few courageous, tireless, devoted leaders in whom the people can put their faith.

[9] No sane, normal, decent person could ever think of hurting a close friend or relative.

[10] Nobody ever learned anything really important except through suffering.

[11] What the youth needs most is strict discipline, rugged determination, and the will to work and fight for family and country.

[12] An insult to our honor should always be punished.

[13] Sex crimes, such as rape and attacks on children, deserve more than mere imprisonment; such criminals ought to be publicly whipped, or worse.

[14] There is hardly anything lower than a person who does not feel a great love, gratitude, and respect for his parents.

[15] Most of our social problems would be solved if we could somehow get rid of the immoral, crooked, and feebleminded people.

[16] Homosexuals are hardly better than criminals and ought to be severely punished.

[17] When a person has a problem or worry, it is best for him not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.

[18] Nowadays more and more people are prying into matters that should remain personal and private.

[19] Some people are born with an urge to jump from high places.

[20] People can be divided into two distinct classes: the weak and the strong.

[21] Some day it will probably be shown that astrology can explain a lot of things.

[22] Wars and social troubles may someday be ended by an earthquake or flood that will destroy the whole world.

[23] No weakness or difficulty can hold us back if we have enough will power.

[24] It is best to use some prewar authorities in Germany to keep order and prevent chaos. [You'll have to pretend it is 1946 when you answer this one.]

[25] Most people don't realize how much our lives are controlled by plots hatched in secret places.

[26] Human nature being what it is, there will always be war and conflict.

[27] Familiarity breeds contempt.

[28] Nowadays when so many different kinds of people move around and mix together so much, a person has to protect himself especially carefully against catching an infection or disease from them.

[29] The wild sex life of the old Greeks and Romans was tame compared to some of the goings-on in this country, even in places where people might least expect it.

[30] The true American way of life is disappearing so fast that force may be necessary to preserve it.

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