As a prior, people often offer a false dilemma of “you gotta sell your soul because our cause is Good and Just enough.”
Indeed, this is one of the central engines of abuse / cults. It’s spiritual pyrite: You identify what the mark deeply wants; present yourself / your group as providing it; and then when the mark has any thought patterns you don’t like, you frame those as being against their goal of getting what they deeply want.
Indeed, this is one of the central engines of abuse / cults. It’s spiritual pyrite: You identify what the mark deeply wants; present yourself / your group as providing it; and then when the mark has any thought patterns you don’t like, you frame those as being against their goal of getting what they deeply want.