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@bankhaunter wrote:

Disfellowshipping is always a last resort but some do choose it that way and as I have said before it is a choice we were allowed.

 

Is that the same strange use of the word 'choose' that is used when christians say a person 'chooses' to go to Hell?

 

The person who is disfellowshipped does not choose to be so, that's the choice of the other Witnesses, they are the ones who do the disfellowshipping, they are the ones exercising a choice.

 

It's cowardly to blame the victim.

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The one who is disfellopwhipped has chosen a course that they know to be against the principals of God, they are given plenty of time council, help and support to guide them and help them to repent. If they do not wish to or accept their wrong doing then as a last resort they are disfellowshipped. It is only usually a serious wrong doing with no repentance that a disfellowshipping is the final out come.

They are not a victim, they are a human being treated with love and care. The disfellowshipping is an outcome to ultimately help them into realising the seriousness of their wrong doing. But the final choice to stay on that path is theirs.