A fundamental "point of departure" between the "lepers" (Zeuszor and I for example) and certain "others" is likely to be in response to the question,
Can McKay ever be rehabilitated?David McKay, Chris Butler and others who "grace" these pages......could we reasonably expect them to "respond" to "courteous" treatment and "respectful" communication.....by ultimately being somehow persuaded of their depradation and then sufficiently convicted to moderate their behaviour.....
I would personally say
no in McKay's case at the very least,
and probably more generally, in regard to Butler and ilk....
....the cult leaders themselves, will have of course, ultimately abused and betrayed themselves.... however they have in the process become "hardened criminals", who would not now, in my opinion, be even capable of genuinely considering a world in which they were not the center.....(obviously they would know well enough, to deny this, for the purposes of duping more into their service)...they are fundamentally, criminally insane.
...if David McKay (God willing) lost a few more henchman and say had to close some of his "cells", I could imagine that you might find him prepared to "negotiate"....if he sensed a loss of power, "friendly" David would then suddenly appear....not because he actually concurred on any of the substantive issues, but simply as a "survival" mechanism....were David to then recruit sufficient numbers, he would quickly return to the "cult" world he inhabits (and leads) in his imagination....
Treatment for him, may have been possible once....had be been "brought in" early enough, however...
I think that the "split" in the mid-nineties (where he had to bring himself to betray his own children in order to ramain in power) was the point of "no-return"......there will be no more further "response" now....
David is not a
"bird of a different feather" if he brings himself to (duplicitiously) "smile" on cue, at the right people, on occasion.... whatever
"beautiful plummage" he may choose to dress himself in...
David is not simply "misunderstanding" any communication that is attempted with him...
(however much some may like to whimsically surmise that the poor man is just
"pining for the fiords" )
...morally, he is effectively
"dead, deceased, and departed for his maker".....
If one looks closely enough, while David still lives and breathes,
you may see that what may once have been a "soul"
is now simply
"nailed to its perch" of flesh....
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