Why Cults Lure Disciples .. No Tongue In Cheek Here

[SamFreedom]

Why are you presenting this as if it is news?  As if you discovered this? Abraham Maslow already discovered and shared this information in a rational format... but he did so for the development of human potential - not the enslavement of it.

[joyvintage]

This isn't being presented as news or a revelation out of the blue. Have you ever pulled someone out of the path of an oncoming truck crossing a walk at 65 mph? I don't have to claim unique knowledge of what would happen. In fact, no one has to claim to be an expert on the effect of two tons of pickup on an unwary human torso.

And the person so spared the consequences would agree that warning people of the devastation they've avoided is a good thing - it resulted in their own deliverance.

[SamFreedom]

There is a difference to which you are not currently sensitive... one is presented through someone masterful, the other, through a, perhaps well-intended, salesman. Your analogy is not on the same level but rather academic.