"Don't Negotiate" first draft checkpoint

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@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ A human who has accepted—who has been _taken hostage by_—this idea, will fee
 
 Just like they would pay the ransom if their friend was kidnapped by terrorists.
 
+And with no one willing to mention any inconvenient facts for fear of being socially punished, the meme spreads.
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 The friends care about the human. The forces of memetic evolution do not.
 
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@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ So, while I realize that a lot of people have strong feelings about this topic,
 
 Let me tell you about the moment I stopped wanting to be sensitive. 
 
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+I had the most surreal, gaslighty conversation with a smart, nice young man, who was very insistent not just that I was wrong, but that I shouldn't be talking or thinking about the issue at all. I was told that the quality-of-life improvements available from making better decisions by means of understanding the underlying psychological phenomenon were small compared to the harm of suggesting that late-transitioning trans women aren't real women, that the right time to consider the question was in 25 to 30 years when the culture war over trans rights was won and out of the Overton Window, that _knowing the truth_ wouldn't help me and wouldn't help anyone else.
 
 It didn't feel like I was talking to a reasonable, sane person who happened to have different beliefs from me about the etiology of male-to-female transgenderedness.
 
@@ -60,16 +62,9 @@ It didn't feel like I was talking to a _person_ at all.
 
 It _felt like_ I was talking to an AI designed to maximize the number of trans people.
 
-I agree that for ppl who have _already_ bought the trans narrative, learning this information would damage their self-concept
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-https://arbital.com/p/rescue_utility/
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-but, conditional on it being true, do you really want to double-down on the lie forever!?!?
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-if you've based your identity around something so fragile that science can threaten you, maybe basing your identity that way was _not a good idea_
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+I understand that for people who have _already_ built up a self-image around the idea that they are literally women and always have been, the idea that their female gender identity arose out of a misinterpretation of misdirected male sexuality could be extremely disturbing. 
 
-If being a good person means submitting to social pressure aimed at getting me to _shut up and stop thinking_ about the true nature of the beautiful feeling at the center of my life for _twenty-five fucking years_ (!?), then I have _no interest_ in being a good person.
+But people dealing with gender dysphoria who haven't already transitioned deserve accurate information! This is _personal_ to me. If being a good person means submitting to social pressure aimed at getting me to _shut up and stop thinking_ about the true nature of the beautiful feeling at the center of my life for _twenty-five fucking years_ (!?), then I have _no interest_ in being a good person.
 
 I'm certainly not _trying_ to say things that will hurt people—_least_ of all people who are mostly just like me but read different books in a different order and are living out a pretty decent approximation of _my wildest fantasy_.