The middle

The difficulty lives in the middle. The chapter does not pretend otherwise.

A condition that is not lethal but that narrows. Deafness. Blindness. A cognitive difference. Is editing it out widening or narrowing?

The widening reading: a corridor with the capacity is wider than one without.

The narrowing reading: the person who would have been deaf would have been a different operator with a different corridor, and the edit has selected the operator in advance.

The chapter does not collapse this by stipulation. A condition that produces severe pain, exclusion from the shared room or radical narrowing of coupling admits the widening reading at higher confidence. A condition that produces a different corridor, not a narrower one, admits the narrowing reading at higher confidence.

The test is real. It reads cleanly at the extremes. It does not manufacture certainty where the corridor’s width is itself contested. The honesty is the commitment. The manufactured certainty would be the parasitic move.

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