I think these can be very dangerous beliefs, in that they can encourage people to abandon responsibility for their own actions. Church leaders, even prophets, can be wrong. Have been wrong. (The JoD has plenty of statements that most people today believe are flat-out wrong.) And it's not always clear when they are speaking "as a prophet" vs speaking "as a man." I think it can set people up for a version of the "Nuremberg defense": I'm not responsible, because I was just following orders.
When I was LDS, I believed that we would stand at the judgment bar alone. Accepting counsel is one thing. Assuming that one need not reflect on statements because the thinking has been done is quite another.
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