[Freedom]

When reading through these WL quotes, something caught my attention. It's almost as if WL admitted that leaving the "church life" was something that plenty of people in the LC have thought about. And of course he never ventured near that subject of why people would be thinking about doing that in the first place.

Here's one of the main problems with the LC - they insist on doing things in a very specific and particular way. There is no room for flexibility, opinions or dissent. In any such environment, there is going to be a large amount of turnover. LC history attests to this. Who knows how many tens of thousands of members have left over the years.

So the real thing that is leading people to have the consideration of whether or not to leave is the inflexibility of the LC. That's not the fault of the rank and file members, but the fault of the people who are in charge. So it's obviously wrong when any group tries to imply that leaving may have consequences. It becomes downright abusive when they make that kind of suggestion in an environment that few people would even want to be a part of.