Okay, I don't know lots of people that were DF'd, but of all the times I've encountered DF people when I was a Dub, THEY actually blanked ME! It was always something that I had fixed in my mind that the JWs had dead wrong, even when I was an uber Dub. I remember several times when I used to arrive late at meetings, and I'd make a point of getting eye contact with the poor dub at the back sitting on the naughty step. Every single time I got the poker face with no acknowledgement at all. Even this one time in a shop, I passed a sister I knew well, she saw me and put her eyes to the floor and walked away quickly. (WTF? Not even at the KH?) I have always been dead set against bullying of any kind, always getting into fights protecting vulnerable people. I used to physically feel sick when I saw the way DF'd were treated at the KH, and wanted to hurt the ones doing it.
My question is, have you ever done it, and how did it make you feel? Did you get remorse afterwards, or did you just not think about it? Did you actually convince yourself that you were doing the right thing?
I just don't see how Dubs could ever push aside feelings of compassion for somebody who was repentant. It never did sit right with me, and had I ever been challenged over the matter, I think I would have been DF'd myself over a refusal to conform. Did anybody else ever feel like that?