Every single day anti-cultists, politicians, corporations, religions and the media attempt to blur the lines of what is or is not dangerous by exaggerating harmless things as dangerous and downplaying dangerous things as harmless. To help you learn to distinguish these things for yourself, we will begin examining traits of dangerous cults in order to have a foundation from which to examine false claims about how to identify a dangerous or destructive cult*. How to Identify a Danger That a trait of some group disturbs you, such as their wearing robes or speaking in a way you find strange or handing out leaflets, is nothing to be worried about. If they do not actually damage the person, they cannot be dangerous or destructive by any measure, and are more than likely completely harmless in such practices. Though strange or militaristic uniforms and impenetrable forms of speech can be surface-level indicators of something deeper deserving investigation. But those things alone are not enou...