And maybe they were this way before becoming a JW.... part of the attraction.
Or were raised in it and know of no other way to be.
My experience is that.. the two closest JW's to me my JW father and my JW maternal (not my dad's mom no relation) grandmother NEVER EVER admiited they were wrong and would scheme,lie,conive,whine,pout to keep from admitting they were wrong about anything and everything they would lie pathologically like psychopaths.
Very scary,so how did i put up with them? Cognitive dissonance on my part I would reason as i was told that "they are in the truth but the truth isn't in them"
The horrific shock for me to crash to pieces in 1992 and have it all wash over me that they were psychopathic monsters because they were Jehovah's Witnesses
BTW my mother and I were impeccably honest and straight forward because we despised their lying BS so much the pendulem swung the other way with me i am honest and let the chips fall where they may!