It is not your responsibility to "save" someone with clever words and dialogue choices. It is also, in turn, not his responsibility to do the same.
If someone thinks Cuties is okay but Kill la Kill isn't... They're evil. Straight-up. If they look at Steven Universe and go "yeesh, slow it with the grooming of minors", and also dislike KLK for sexualization reasons, you could reason with them, agree to disagree, whatever, but holding the view one-sided is racist, xenophobic, small-minded, and incredibly self-centered. Thus: Evil. Heroes redeem villains, it is true, but most people are not heroes, and most people who think they are heroes, are still also not heroes.
When people are in a cult, the best you can do is inform them that you're there for them if they ever want out, if they need an outside perspective or a second opinion on their moral compass, and to remind them that they are free to ignore that opinion or view and still be welcome to seek it again in the future anyways, and anyone saying to close out completely someone so costlessly ignored, is afraid that an outside perspective would shatter a constructed false worldview.
"If you were smart enough to cajole them out of it, you'd have done so by now."
People can leave a cult by force, but it is usually their own internal monologue that wakes them to the need to leave, and the outside force is merely an arm held out to lift them back above water.
Your last line is basically the line.
It is not your responsibility to "save" someone with clever words and dialogue choices. It is also, in turn, not his responsibility to do the same.
If someone thinks Cuties is okay but Kill la Kill isn't... They're evil. Straight-up. If they look at Steven Universe and go "yeesh, slow it with the grooming of minors", and also dislike KLK for sexualization reasons, you could reason with them, agree to disagree, whatever, but holding the view one-sided is racist, xenophobic, small-minded, and incredibly self-centered. Thus: Evil. Heroes redeem villains, it is true, but most people are not heroes, and most people who think they are heroes, are still also not heroes.
When people are in a cult, the best you can do is inform them that you're there for them if they ever want out, if they need an outside perspective or a second opinion on their moral compass, and to remind them that they are free to ignore that opinion or view and still be welcome to seek it again in the future anyways, and anyone saying to close out completely someone so costlessly ignored, is afraid that an outside perspective would shatter a constructed false worldview.
"If you were smart enough to cajole them out of it, you'd have done so by now."
People can leave a cult by force, but it is usually their own internal monologue that wakes them to the need to leave, and the outside force is merely an arm held out to lift them back above water.