Some on this board have stated that many here are “bitter” and need to move on from criticizing the WTBS, even implying that there was something wrong with the mental state of ones who continue in their “attacks” of JWs.
This following seemed to me to hit the nail on the head as to why so many of us stay involved long after we’ve left the Borg. Also, even the Watchtower has stated something like, why don’t people just leave, why do they have to publicly attack JWs? The 1st and most obvious answer is that you can’t “just leave” without being defamed and possibly lose your family.
The 2nd response is that the WTBS offends an innate human need. This is from The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama. My comments and emphasis are in blue.
his spirit “boils and becomes harsh,” forming an alliance for battle with what seems just” even if he “suffers in hunger, cold, and everything of the sort…” Thymos is something like an innate human sense of justice; people believe that have a certain worth, and when other people act as though they are worth less—when they do not recognize their worth at its correct value—then they become angry.(pgs. 164-165) Thymos emerges in the Republic (by Socrates) as being somehow related to the value one sets on oneself, what we today might call “self-esteem.” Leontius believed himself to be the type of individual who could comport himself with a certain dignity and self-restraint, and when he failed to live up to his own sense of self-esteem, he grew angry with himself.
Socrates suggests a relationship between anger and “self-esteem” by explaining that the nobler a man is—that is, the more highly he evaluates his own worth—the more angry he will become when he has been dealt with unjustly:
The intimate relationship between self-evaluation and anger can be seen in the English word synonymous with anger, “indignation.” “Dignity” refers to a person’s sense of self-worth; “in-dignation” arises when something happens to offend that sense of worth. Conversely, when other people see that we are not living up to our own sense of self-esteem, we feel shame, and when we are evaluated justly (i.e., in proportion to our true worth), we feel pride.
We've been offended, deceived, shunned, and defamed. It's unjust and noble persons react when they've been treated like this. It's no wonder at all that many of us appreciate this venue of fighting injustice and continue to struggle against such oppression. The WTBS is a totalitarian organization with no legitimate right to "rule" so many people.