Thank you Terry for posing this. Consistency should be a characteristic of any worldview.
Imagine being a 14 year old JW kid who has:
1. Been denied playing sports in school even though at WT headquarters the leaders have unlimited access to olympic swimming pools, tennis courts, golf and raquet ball courts.
2. Been told that he cannot attend college to maximize his God-given gifts
3. Been forced to adhere to 100's of made-up, changing, unbiblical rules that make them a marginal member of their school and laughing stock among their peers.
And then, he reads stuff like what you just posted here. Can he go to his family and express his concerns? We all know how that conversation will end. He will be shut down and likely lectured on subjects of loyalty, apostasy, getting his thinking adjusted, "where else could we go", blah, blah, blah.
If he persists out of concern for his family possibly being on the wrong track, the family will likely marginalize him, shame him, start leaving him out of family activities, take him to psychologists and may even put them out on the street.
His own family has been effectively weaponized against him as enforcers of the WT mind-control. Many JW kids turn to drugs and "act out" in other ways to help them cope with the abuse from their loved ones as they begin their journey of waking up and as they start examining the families' denials, and dark, dirty little secrets.
Then, that kid gets labelled as not spiritual, fleshly and rebellious, when in reality the drugged-out, fornicating and rebellious child is probabllly the most honest one of the whole bunch and is just trying to get some psychological relief from the crazy train he finds himself on.
It is just hideous what cults do to families. The graveyards are full of the ones who never made it quite far enough out to shed the shame that was heaped upon their questioning soul.
I pray everyday for God to abolish the WT system of abuse. It is one of the biggest turds the devil has ever made.