So much bias in this topic, so much hate
I think their motives tend to be individual rather than for a group of people, and personally I feel much more secure around people who think you can help them and will treat you as such rather than who try to take advantage of you for some obscure group benefit.
A Scorpio will be oriented towards the inner life and emotions. That in itself is where true power resides as per the rules of our Universe. DNA. If there is no individual development, there is no community development. The sooner people understand that, the better. Now, of course, there are multiple things and elements to achieve, or aspects of consciousness to deal with in one's lifetime and not everyone can afford to be self-absorbed, or have a scorpionic self-absorbed type of attitude.
I like sexuality and it is a nice thing when dealt with normally, without the xyz-pathic or obsessive/self-harming nuances, which again might characterise them (or make them refuse it).
About the Plutonic journey, it just so happens that my chart is a train line of planets/asc kinda conjuncting each other, and Pluto is on the handle (cutting planet). What happened is it first traversed my Sun Jupiter in the 12th, then asc, mars, merc and is due to pass over neptune, uranus, venus moon etc...
I'm in a continuous Pluto transit of conjunctions, all my life. I didn't necessarily want the occult, but it's been there and kept reappearing through others, through my family unfortunately or fortunately (God knows only), and my experiences, relentlessly, until I learned to deal with my fears. Hell of a journey. A lot of things to tell. I don't necessarily mind it myself anymore (I surely did when I was younger and hard to separate myself from family consciousness, school etc.), I think certain other people do mind though. It messes around with 'plans' that lack foundation. Remember and understand one thing.
The occult is alive and well in this world though unfortunately subdued. Or rather, true spirituality is. For what reason people think communicating through images on a mental level, or hearing thoughts is not real, I can' tell, but they are very, very much real, especially in relation to relatives, close friends, loved ones, animals and plants. Yet the quantity of insane people or going mad because of coming to know these is astounding as well, or misusing the sensibility/perceptiveness they've been given. Many things can be influenced or 'attracted' through thought alone, but one must be convinced of whatever they are doing for that to happen.
I'd say people are just children overall in most matters, occult or non-occult. That's my Scorpionic way of presenting things. Those who think we are the pinnacle of evolution are sadly mistaken, though we are in a nicer spot than some of our ancestors indeed. I always hated these ways of comparing things, using 'time' or number as an excuse rather than quality.
I love life and nature, but I believe people do not thread carefully at all, and destroy at all costs, for some reasons and hatred or fear unknown to me. What happens with these people I can't tell either... but what they help create is surely a void.