Last year a lady in Bend wanted me to take her gelding's heels down to nothing for a cleaner look. I pulled up a photo on my phone of a horse with a collapsed heel from my old files. Just laid it next to her horse's foot and asked, "You see how that support is gone?" She got quiet and then said, "Okay, just do what you think is right." Sometimes they just need to see the end result of the bad idea.

Honestly, sometimes people get too worked up about edits. It's just a book in a school library, not the only copy in the world. Maybe the cleaned up version gets more kids to actually read it first. The point still gets across, just with less harsh details. Seems like making a big deal over nothing when the original is easy to find anywhere else.

Yeah, that "nothing to hide" line is such a weak argument. A buddy of mine got his bank account frozen for a week because an algorithm flagged a totally normal money transfer to his cousin overseas. The bank said it matched a "suspicious pattern" and he had zero way to fight it. He wasn't hiding anything, but he still got treated like a criminal over a computer guess. That stuff changes you.