This is a key point, except I’d replace “remind” with “gaslight”
It’s not irrelevant. It is just relevant later in the event the “man in the arena” *fails* in a way that hurts others. Then it becomes evidence in an accountability process.
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don’t think ‘man in the arena’ is meant to shield people from criticism so much as to remind them that much of it is irrelevant
it’s far easier to scrutinize than be scrutinized
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