re-editing this post, now to take out the sarcasm, out of sympathy.
I just trawled through your (foodguypdx's) older posts and saw you had posted anti-Landmark posts initially.
either someone has started to borrow your account now or we have the first (that I can think of) example of an anti-Landmark to Landmark convert who has posted here.
I want to say that seem not to realize the difference between statements and arguments.
you say that only the easily swayed grads make phone calls/do whatever. Landmark has no problem with recruiting those people or having them make the calls. you left that part out. if it had its way, it would make everyone equally pliable to its program, game plan, call it what you will. you left that part out too.
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If your friend or family member has participated in any LE program and has come out the other side twisted or not themselves, I submit that they were not well to begin with.
two things of note.
one, Landmark does screen out people with the more blatant problems (psychiatric histories, jail time, whatever) (BTW, I have a psychiatric history and have gotten arrested more than once... not putting anyone down... also, incidentally think of psychiatry as a scam that makes Landmark seem nice and benevolent, but there you), it does not (nor, could it, in pragmatic moneymaking terms) ensure that non one gets hurt. and people do get hurt.
two, you exhibit the classic lack of sympathy shown by many (not all) graduates of Landmark and shown more so (I think) by its management. if it happened to you, you caused it, if it happened to you, fuck you. don't whine to, or at, us.
in Landmarkland, no can force anyone to do anything, true?
so you have a blanket explanation right there.
no need to play coy.
just say, "hey, no one ever forces anyone to do anything, ever" whether in Landmark or anywhere else of course that sounds a mite evil to outsiders you want to downplay that. since you didn't it, it sounds, indeed, to those of who haven't taken, pretty evil, or rather specifically evil in justifying Landmark's policiies.
there you have it, an idelogy designed specifically to justify the policy of the corporation that sells it and creates it.