I think some reality check is urgently needed. You insist that deflation mirrors inflation, and I take crazy numbers for an example. Okay, you have 3% inflation and a real interest rate of 2%, not something that you would call crazy, right? What will the real interest rate then be for the deflation of the same 3% according to your logic?
You cannot have 3% deflation and only 2% real interest rate in steady state, long term.
Because the *source* of deflation is also the *source* of real interest, namely economic expansion ("more goods chasing the same amount of gold").
The ONLY way to obtain a stronger deflation rate than the economic expansion rate (in steady state, long term) is when money is DESTROYED systematically. If gold is regularly dumped in the ocean or sent in deep space or so. If bitcoins become un-spendable (hehe!).
On the other hand, upward, inflation wise, there is no limit. You could print so much money that you get 80% inflation if you want to, as a matter of speaking.
What I meant with "deflation mirrors inflation" is for those sets of numbers that make sense. Of course inflation can be made arbitrarily big, while deflation not. But *for those sets of numbers that are possible* the two mirror situations are dual. There are indeed number combinations of inflation possible, that are not possible with deflation. But that's not the point. For those that are both possible, they are mirrors of each other.
Look at it this way: I could say, in some or other mechanical problem, that "the mass increase is a mirror to the mass decrease". But then of course, a mass increase is always possible, and, as you cannot get a negative mass, the mass decrease is limited to the original mass.