Which part of this it attacking her?
The part where the first half is about two words away from how Kyubey delivered it in canon. Reassurances mean
nothing when they're delivered after you've already destroyed someone. Seriously. Minds are not path-dependent. Argument A followed by Argument B is
very much not the same as Argument B followed by Argument A. There are entire fields of science dedicated to studying these effects and minimizing them when attempting to gather scientific data from people.
There's no such thing. Outside of hard mathematics there is no such thing as a discrete, identifiable "thought" that is exactly the same as a concept. Your brain doesn't have stuff in it like that, language doesn't have things in it like that. At best you can prod someone's electrified gristle into behaving in a particular way, and even
that suffers from major epistemic failures. Ever heard of the byzantine generals problem? Every attempt at communication is
necessarily inaccurate unless you are communicating pure mathematics, and even that's iffy sometimes.
Your framing is that Homura gets to figure out all the bad shit with nothing to protect her. She hasn't rehearsed her evidence. She hasn't cached any useful patterns of thought. She doesn't have any arguments ready to counter the bad shit. If we leave the actual topic for
last, we can make it so that all of our arguments are already available for her to use to defend herself. If we hit her first and
then try to make arguments, we'll have to try to make her listen to us while she's in a bad, bad state of mind, and it just won't work. People are not path-independent. Door-in-the-face, cognitive dissonance.
Your guys votes are making it look like Homura did do something wrong that she is being forgiven for.
No matter what we tell her, she's going to be believe that she did something wrong. We need to argue with
Homura as she is standing in front of us, and Homura as she is standing in front of us is going to need to be convinced that she didn't do anything wrong. Since we know this, we can make our arguments
before she actually has the bad thought, which will be much more effective as outlined above.
I will note that, unless we specifically lead Homura through the
actual realizations that Kyubey will try to use against her, she'll remain vulnerable. It's not just that we have to tell her that Madoka's Potential is increasing; we have to make sure she's had
and defeated the idea that it's all her fault. Otherwise Kyubey can just go "BY THE WAY IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT" and we've essentially done nothing to prepare her for it.
Also? Our votes are not giving her the potentialbomb right now. Doing so is irresponsible and
extremely suboptimal. I strongly believe that our best course of action is to do this once Madoka has been read in on the loops and is there to provide support for Homura. Hearing from Sabrina that she did nothing wrong is one thing. Hearing from
Madoka, who is theoretically the wronged party in this situation, that she did nothing wrong? That's something completely different.
