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This is going to be a tough argumentative nut to crack. DMOF can always say they didn’t listen to their conscience. I think dilemmas would be the knife which would divide bone from marrow, and even then it’s not certain.

You have a point. I think, broadly speaking, there are two ways of looking at those who disagree with you: one (which I think was far more common in centuries past) is that they know you're right, but, stubborn reprobates that they are, refuse to admit it (so, obviously, they should be executed)! The other, more common today, is that the others hold their views sincerely and genuinely believe they're right and they have a right to think as they do (so, obviously, a 9-year-old can demand to be "transgendered" and not be ostracized for it).

But most everybody's conscience develops (for better or for worse) as they get older, most dramatically, I guess, in the case of a St. Paul type conversion (or any conversion). I think Lucile Hasley said a good way to drive yourself nuts is to judge your years-earlier actions by your converted conscience!

Constant vigilance is the price of more than liberty.