There are certain goals for which having a moral or intense community is helpful. Whether or not I want to live in such a community I consider it okay for other people to build those communities. On the other hand, building cults is not okay in the same sense.
Intense communities also generally focus on something where otherwise there’s not much focus in society, increase cognitive diversity and are thus able to produce certain kinds of innovations that wouldn’t happen with less cognitive diversity.
There are certain goals for which having a moral or intense community is helpful. Whether or not I want to live in such a community I consider it okay for other people to build those communities. On the other hand, building cults is not okay in the same sense.
Intense communities also generally focus on something where otherwise there’s not much focus in society, increase cognitive diversity and are thus able to produce certain kinds of innovations that wouldn’t happen with less cognitive diversity.