funereal-disease:

I believe in rehabilitative justice first and foremost because I was in a cult.

Yeah, I talk a lot about my liberal pacifist upbringing and my community’s condemnation of Middle East invasion shaping my relationship to the Evil Other. All of that is true and salient. But the most formative element by far was the experience of being seduced by incorrect beliefs and finding my way out the other side.

(decently long effortpost below cut)

Keep reading