Somewhat ironically with respect to timing, I read the post below just after reading a quite interesting documentary.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/356320001/ran-into-some-jws-but-this-time-did-teaching-x
"But in anycase, I thought on it a few days and decided (haven't told her yet) that I have no interest in destroying her faith. Her life has been a total train wreck and now she is sober(she has been in and out of that and JWs my entire life), in a happy relationship and has a good job. I love her-she has always been more like my big sister than my aunt. She has a stability that I haven't seen in her before. I know it isn't "the truth" as it usually is part of her downfall, but I also know that I don't want to send her down the last dark alley of her life."
In Mr. Nicholson's piece, he refers often to Rick Pain.
Rick makes this statement at the end:
"I ask Rick one day if becoming a Witness had helped him feel God more strongly. “To be honest, no,” he says. “That’s something that comes, for me, in time.” His difficult early life, he says, made it “hard for him to trust people”. Pain credits the church with keeping him on the straight and narrow, pointing out that his three brothers, who are now in their seventies, are all still using drugs. “If I left the truth tomorrow, I’d be back on drugs by the end of the week,” he says. “No doubt in the world.” There have been times, he says, “where all I’ve had to hang onto was Jehovah. In hindsight I can see that there was an intervention in my life that can’t be explained in any other way.”
http://peteanicholson.com/writing/in-the-belly-of-jehovah
http://theliftedbrow.com/post/88214463157/in-the-belly-of-jehovah-by-pete-nicholson
Given JWdaughter's post and Rick Pain's statement, I can see where WTS provides help to a minute fraction of society.
That is, to those who are messed up, with no structure in their lives, etc.
So, does the WTS BS benefit certain people?
It does.
For every one benefited, does this justify WTS cruelty to multiple others harmed?