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[thedreamisdead]

[There's no getting around it. It's an essay. About the dangers of sugar abuse on your health, linked to several medical articles. In it, she links the abuse of sugar to depression, diabetes, dopamine imbalances, fueling cancer cells and making tumors more aggressive, impotence, increased risk of heart attacks and heart disease, increased inflammation leading to joint pain and arthritis, increased risk of strokes, kidney failure, and rotting teeth.

Included in her essay is a list of signs of sugar abuse, including false teeth, rotten teeth, pupil dilation, jitteriness, mid-afternoon 'crashes', and other symptoms.

She wraps up with a plea for people to seek help and rehabilitation for their addictions and avoid anyone who might try to push such addictive substances on them.]

Comments

[unrecovered]

By misrepresenting the information and causing fear instead of, I don't know, encouragement? Compromise? Trying to help instead of nailing your ninety-five theses to the door?

Believe it or not, fear is not the best motivator. There are better ways of handling this.

[thedreamisdead]

All I'm doing is putting the information out there.

[And tormenting Tucker. But who wouldn't?]

If people want the full picture, they're free to read my essay. It's not like I've distorted the facts there.

[She's just counting on the vast majority of the team being too lazy to do anything but skim and catch her carefully chosen buzzwords.]

[unrecovered]

And you have no agenda, right?

Is disturbing the peace not illegal where you are? Because I kind of thought that one would stick around.

[thedreamisdead]

Believe it or not, sugar is harmful in the long run and I do have a vested interest in this organization being as healthy as possible. This isn't about fear or controlling people.

Would you rather I sit back and refuse to discuss things that could be harmful to us in the long run?

[unrecovered]

Oh, I'd be fine with a discussion. What I don't like is the sheer amount of fearmongering going on here.

And I have a hard time believing that this isn't about fear when you just admitted to Cortana that you knew it would be "easily misunderstood" and that you were expecting this kind of reaction. So now that you've just told us what it's really about, you can get off your high horse.

[thedreamisdead]

I didn't write it to be misunderstood, I just knew it could be. I figured it might have one or two people misunderstanding it anyway due to a sheer unwillingness to read. Grif, maybe. But I don't think anyone could have predicted the penis-focused breakdown Tucker's having.

I'll admit that this is a response to a conversation I had on my last mission, but all I've done is state the facts and encourage Tucker to think about whether or not he's had healthy sugar levels all this time. If you want to read more maliciousness into it, feel free, but that wasn't my intention when I put all this together.