A med student colleague of mine, a devout christian, is going to give a lecture on psychosexual development for our small group in a couple of days. She's probably going to sneak in an unknown amount of propaganda. With delicious improbability, there happen to be two transgender med students in our group she probably isn't aware of. To this day, relations in our group have been very friendly.
Any tips on how to avoid the apocalypse? Pre-emptive maneuvers are out of the question, I want to see what happens.
ETA: Nothing happened. Caused a significant update.
This sounds like a situation in which some people present may consider some other people's beliefs to be an individual-level existential threat — whether to their identity, to their lives, or to their immortal souls. In other words, the problem is not just that these folks disagree with each other, but that they may feel threatened by one another, and by the propagation of one another's beliefs.
Consider:
"If you convince people of your belief, people are more likely to try to kill me."
"If you convince people of your belief, I am more likely t...
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