Benb, Lapdog and others obviously have a version of the Stockholm Syndrome where one falls in love with their captors. Here we have obvious frauds and sellers of reptilian lipids that have so captured their targets in their thrall that even though the door is wide open for an escape they still cling to their torturers like children to apron strings.
A marvelous example of the frailty of the human psyche IMHO as well as the rapaciousness and predatory instincts of our fellow humans.
