How Could You Allow Yourself to Be Abused?

A lot of these cult stories really end up feeling judgmental towards the victims. How could this happen? These activities that these people are voluntarily involving themselves in seems so absurd and outside the realms of reality, Dan says. And I think what you actually find is that the elements of what Larry did are actually pretty commonplace. It's a process of humiliation, bullying, embarrassment,. which starts from love bombing elements of this we see in lots of documentaries right now. The word cult isn't quite expansive enough to contain everything that should fall under that umbrella.