If you want to reach a person who feels lonely having a community of like minded people who accept the person can be enough. You don’t necessarily need stuff like money.
Agreed. Emotional motivations make just as good a target as intellectual ones. If someone already feels lonely and isolated, then they have a generally exploitable motivation, making them a prime candidate for any sort of cult recruitment. That kind of isolation is just what cults look for in a recruit, and most try to create it intentionally, using whatever they can to cut their cultists off from any anti-cult influences in their lives.
If you want to reach a person who feels lonely having a community of like minded people who accept the person can be enough. You don’t necessarily need stuff like money.
Agreed. Emotional motivations make just as good a target as intellectual ones. If someone already feels lonely and isolated, then they have a generally exploitable motivation, making them a prime candidate for any sort of cult recruitment. That kind of isolation is just what cults look for in a recruit, and most try to create it intentionally, using whatever they can to cut their cultists off from any anti-cult influences in their lives.
Agree, except I’d strengthen this to “a much better”.