Okay, so I shouldn't have taken the first parts to mean you believe the invisible bear procedure was the same procedure that too away Jamelia's memories, and the the personality Rewrite was a part of that. I used that interpretation, because the other, less charitable was that you were either confused about hat people think is the big secret thats informing a large part of your oppositions vote, I missed someone saying this. Because that certainly is not it.
No. You're missing it. There are two different options for "things we could reveal". The first is that we could reveal that our memories were changed by INVISIBLE BEAR (and, by extension, that we know our memories have been changed). Nobody wants this. No plan includes this. Everyone looked at this and said "No, that's a terrible idea", myself included. The second is that we could reveal that INVISIBLE BEAR caused a death of the personality, or nearly so. This was my proposal (with a fair bit of write-in). Most of the rest of you, however, seemed to respond "No, that's still a terrible idea, we're still telling her far too much vital and dangerous information, we need to just bluff and go." My point here was that this was not, in fact, vital and dangerous information, as there was already a large group of people who had it, and who had reason to expect that Jamelia had it.
If that's *not* where the opposition is coming from, then where is it?
Err, what exactly do you think the votes to bluff are wanting us to bluff about? What else other then bluffing about why we're here, which is what the people who've made the vote have been talking about. Like, what, do you think it means she's going to make a random false claim and then run out full speed?
No, but if you look a layer or two down, the explanations given are not adequate to the task. The one write-in (not a bad one) basically says "Why yes, I am doing quite well. I have this opportunity to help you, but I suppose if you would prefer, I can pencil in one of my minions". We're NWO enough that if we'd known how she'd react, and known how much hate she'd have, we'd never have walked in in the first place. We'd have sent the minion to begin with. If we want her to believe that we, as a competent, high-ranking NWO operative, came here knowing our full past, we're going to have to imply a viable motivation that would be sufficient for a competent, high-ranking NWO operative to have come here under those conditions. I haven't seen anyone propose one yet, unless we go with the write-in, and the implied motivation of disliking her ourselves and wanting to rub her face in it... which also seems like a poor idea. Perhaps you saw someone write up a bluff that I didn't.
Viable explanation: We came here because the Technocracy is interested in reactivating Dyne and integrating Cybersolutions.
She doesn't like us, so we let her know of the Union's interest in acquiring Cybersolutions, tell her someone else will be in contact, and leave.
Seriously, it even has the advantage of being true.
Sure... but (and I'm saying this twice in different ways, because I've said it before, and it didn't seem to stick) that's not enough to explain why we came in person, rather than sending someone like Donald in instead. Right now, we're in a situation where, having made a nonoptimal decision without full information, we have to somehow justify having made it intentionally with full information.
Mind you, I can't *really* blame you all for skimming over the text-walls. I was a philosophy minor in college and never quite got over it.
