Well it's still possible that someone can cure you (read: cut your leg off), and I certainly don't want to pass that opportunity. There are 3 possibilities of what could happen if we lynch you today (assuming you're town):
1. you die and come back an IC. That is relatively good, but still worse than lynching scum.
2. you die and come back a treestump (or equivalent). That is only marginally better than lynching town, even worse since you would have died anyway and that would have given us another town-controlled kill.
3. you die, period, because your child has been infected too. That's bad.
So none of those scenarios is particularly great, and personally I don't believe in 1, so I don't really see why you would want us to lynch you other than out of self-preservation.
If someone can cure me they should have spoken up by now.
I don't know why you think 1 isn't a possibility. I think it is decent. And there is room between 1 and 2 where I come back with just another non-IC, non-treestump role.
But I also don't think you are looking at this from a "what if we don't lynch yuma" point of view. I don't know what this bite means in terms of potentially infecting other people. I just don't know and neither do you, there is a possibility of there being a mechanic that the infection doesn't "kill" me but changes me to be a liability to the town.
And look... if that happens then I have screwed myself over. Because that means my win condition will have then changed AND everyone will have basically known it... or at least known that it is a possibility. So to be clear... I don't want to get turned into whatever I might get turned into. Because if I do I am going to lose because I was forthcoming as town. But if that does happen I will start playing to that new win con and bite the hell out of everyone I can, if I can.
So yeah... I want self preservation because right now that is the only way I can see myself winning in my current alignment if this bite does in some way change my alignment (which I think is likely given the wording of my PM).
In addition lynching another player has a decent chance of lynching a stronger PR than me. That is always a risk, but in RMM I think it can be best to not lynch and let people use actions that can be confirmed or assessed first. Not always... but often. And this is a good opportunity to not lynch a strong PR and eliminate a possible threat in myself and still preserve myself as a town player going forward.
I think I just convinced myself. Everyone prepare yourself for my first self vote in a long, long time...
vote: yuma