Then “is a cult” is not a useful way of describing the question, under your view. You’ll want a quantitative (or at least ordinal) metric of cultishness, since almost nothing will be at either 0 or 100 percent. Otherwise this reduces to another “What exactly is a sandwich?” type discussion and we’re just trying to decide where along a continuum it makes sense to start or stop using the word in practice.
You know, like the recent 1-10 scoring ASX’s post on tight knit communities used.
Then “is a cult” is not a useful way of describing the question, under your view. You’ll want a quantitative (or at least ordinal) metric of cultishness, since almost nothing will be at either 0 or 100 percent. Otherwise this reduces to another “What exactly is a sandwich?” type discussion and we’re just trying to decide where along a continuum it makes sense to start or stop using the word in practice.
You know, like the recent 1-10 scoring ASX’s post on tight knit communities used.