I'd suggest that your sentiments map very nicely onto a rationalist view of the world but poorly onto reality. I think this more generally falls into a bias som

I'd suggest that your sentiments map very nicely onto a rationalist view of the world but poorly onto reality. I think this more generally falls into a bias some hyper-logical people propagate, that since they assume they make decisions primarily with logic, that others must do the same as well. It inherently assumes that A) people vulnerable to being recruited into a suicidal death cult are thinking logically, and B) such people can be logically talked out of their ideology. If instead one assumes that emotional connection is the primary driver of the recruiting success in question, it follows that disrupting this pipeline would yield more success than attempting to reason with talented recruiters who aren't trying to have a fair and logical debate.