Dear Reader,
This piece builds directly on my previous essay, Discernment Doesn't Require a Verdict.
If context matters when we're trying to understand the people who hurt us, then it must also matter when we're looking at the versions of ourselves that caused harm.
Which means being willing to own the times we were the villain in someone else's story.
And …
I have caused harm
On context, accountability, and refusing to confuse explanation with absolution.
