Educating our youth about high-pressure groups is indeed important. If you do get involved with them (which is not necessarily a bad thing; the military is one for example, as is the AA), you need to be able to stand your ground. Because there are mountains of evidence that groups can push young people to let go of criticial thinking abilities and engage in or allow themselves to be subjected to abuse.
Recognizing the standard influencing techniques that such groups use is not too difficult, if you know what to look for. Better education on this subject is important, as it will go a long way to solve a completely unnecessary problem.
This is a completely reasonable assertion. Nobody in their right mind would disagree, at least not totally. If you would disagree vehemently, something would have to be wrong with your critical thinking skills, right?
Now please read the comments below. It will become very clear what brainwashing can do to your critical thinking skills.

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