Sounds like a tactic used by 'religious' cults. Hit on the victim when they are psychologically and emotionally vulnerable. Next thing you know, you wake up selling pencils on a street corner for your glorious leader -- or strapping on a suicide harness.
"Battle for the Mind", by William Sargant explains how one can very easily lose their personal identity and have it replaced with group-think. Any group.
You are so dead on here.
I have witnessed gayness and cultism in a part of my family, and the tactics are the same.
Hit the victim when they are vunerable, then threaten them once they have been *caught*
"Battle for the Mind", by William Sargant explains how one can very easily lose their personal identity and have it replaced with group-think. Any group.
Congress. Tow the line. Admonish members that step over the boundaries of the cult. For sure commitment to honesty is not a boundary. I'm pretty sure doing that -- commit to honesty -- is out of bounds. Those that do commit are, for the most part in the closet. Which really isn't a commitment.