The risk versus reward for disfellowshipping is so disproportionate as to make your hypothesis incorrect in my opinion.
The risk of psychological damage vs the possible reward of successfully achieving personal freedom is simply too great.
I enjoy my freedom, but at a heinously high cost. It has done untold damage to my psyche and to that of the others in my circle who have been disfellowshipped.
It is always a horrible horrible horrible thing. It is unfair in that men are allowed to judge which sinners are repentant and which are wicked. How foolhardy.
Hi Englishman, I do think disfellowshipping can be a bonus if the person being disfellowshipped spends his/her time to investigate the WTS. I think the person that gets kicked out is less likely to remain loyal to the WTS command not to get on the computer sites that deal with the WBTS.
However, it's not so much a bonus if that indiviual is really convinced that the WTS is Gods org. and they have family trapped in it.
