Journalism (especially older-school) and to a greater extent the law is always asking trauma survivors to present to the public the mirror of their continuous self as though it had not been smashed.
And this feeling of the atomic self, equipped with nothing but a technique for self-consolation, means that you have no time for the sorrows of others.
I wouldn't expect the Ways to be drawn to or equipped for the task of the victim-centred narrative. But that's what we need if learning about cults is what we want.