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This is going to get long. I've got a personal dilemma I've been trying to work out. Explaining the relevant background in what is hopefully a comprehensible manner will involve several metaphorical examples and a lot of jumping around to cover different aspects. I expect there will also be a fair bit of rambling.

For the record, this is not about any one person, incident, or what have you. It's a very general issue, which is actually part of the difficulty. And I had this entry planned for today and pretty much written out in my head this morning before I checked email. (And I plan to write it and post it before I check email again.)

( tl;dr )