The phenomenon of Stockholm syndrome, the remarkable growth in acceptance and even strong affection and loyalty to one’s captors by kidnap victims, has been well-validated and studied closely by psychologists. Is that truly a human vulnerability, perhaps as a coping mechanism, or is it, when it happens, universally a consequence of covert mind control manipulation taking place from behind the scenes to increase the vulnerability and control of abduction victims?

You are coming full circle in your understanding of this bizarre and perplexing consequence of captivity that seems contrary to human nature. Normally, being the victim of a crime, especially something as severe as being kidnapped and kept as a prisoner to live in fear, uncertainty, and deprivation with respect to having your life turned upside down, would incur strong negative feelings. The growing resentment and eventual hatred of one's captors depends on many variables. There are many reasons for hostage-taking and a wide array of potential negative consequences and that all figures in with the emotions, levels of stress, and the trajectory of the relationship between captor and victim. But to become accepting of that situation flies in the face of reason, if only using simple fairness as a standard, let alone the many reasons people's lives are put on hold causing distress. What you are seeing on display is the fact there is a concomitant mind control manipulation going on with such victims with the goal of making them compliant. This happens when humans are manipulated in the first place by the interlopers to commit an abduction, whether for political purposes or as a means of punishment. Such crimes are common in today's world and the criminals often have such help because it is a kind of game for the interlopers to see how much fun they can have as puppeteers to bring about manipulation through power and control as an unseen hand. This is the unseen controlling force of the darkness behind terrorist groups and many people who are manipulated to be a minion of the darkness to carry out crimes of all kinds which add to human misery. This will not always involve a kind of softening up and winning over of the victim, but that can happen and is simply one of the games the interlopers might engage with to see what they can bring about and get away with.