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A thought experiment can be illuminating here: consider the opinions of your parents' acquaintances versus those of random peers of the same age. Most people instinctively prioritize their parents' opinions over peripheral strangers, despite the fact that, logically, the two should carry similar weight. This bias suggests an unresolved psychological inflation of parental authority, often linked to Jungian concepts of the god image—the way parental figures are conflated with higher ideals or archetypes.