Perhaps the WTS serves a useful purpose in the area of population control.
They destroy marriages and wipe out families and family connections. And the people held in the highest esteem by them are single people devoting themselves to preaching and making more converts.
They also create a lot of opportunities for those in the mental health field, providing them with patients and customers for hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, researchers, drug companies and, tho hopefully not, funeral directors.
I used to walk carefully in the mutual respect category, choosing to believe that there's just 'a place for everyone' out there in religion.
But learning the silentlambs stuff and making a connection with other exjws, makes me care more about what they're doing from the point of view of a citizen. Some things need to be stopped, period.
Once that is accomplished, I'll likely go back to my 'mutual respect' stance.
Tho it's hard to say I'll always stay away from exjw stuff.
Throughout history religion and philisophers and writers have long held a fascination with the workings of the human mind insofar as it addresses goodness, evil, denial, various states of pathology and madness.
They're like having an 'ant farm' when it comes to that.
