The major reason for teenage suicide, drug addiction, and alcoholism is that most young people are conformists. They, like their parents, do what “everybody else” does, feeling instinctively that if most people are doing it, then “it” must be good to do. In effect, we act like sheep.

In a packing house where sheep are slaughtered, the sheep walk from their large pen up a narrow ramp and turn right. In order to get the sheep to move up the ramp, a “Judas goat” is trained to lead the sheep up the ramp to their death. The goat is placed among the sheep and then walks confidently to the ramp as the others follow. Once the Judas goat gets to the top of the ramp the he turns left, as a gate is opened only for him and then closed. The others keep going, turn right, and walk to their death. 

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Note: Judas Goat is an actual term and are used in slaughter houses for this purpose. Read more hear.