Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.