You've probably rehearsed the speech before. Sitting at a red light, lying awake at two in the morning, running through all the reasons why the thing you're hiding should stay hidden — it would cost too much, it would hurt them worse, honestly it's not even that big a deal. Turns out those exact arguments were made a long time ago, by people a lot like us, and they got answered. What happened when the arguments ran out is the part nobody sees coming.