My opinion is that even as much as being cult members has harmed us personally it does not rise to a comparison with blacks in the American south.

One of the problems with all cults is that moral issues become very skewed. Cult members engage in "the cult can do no wrong" thinking and then must contort the wrongs they see in their cult to justify them. When people leave cults they are faced with relearning a lot of things. I think one issue people face is regaining personal values and ethics. In the cult, someone else told them what is right and what is wrong. Upon leaving, if they are angry, the only thing they may really feel is the cult is WRONG, and that anything done to fight it could be construed as right. This is still thinking like a cult member.

Most people who now fight cults have also come to the belief that forcible deprogramming is wrong. We have to draw ethical lines in how we fight the cult. I think it is not only right, but also most productive, to try to always error on the side of doing too little when it comes to any questionable tactic. We all have emerged from a belief system where the ends justify the means.  We can't deal with the cult that way.