Christopher Lawson, it’s nice to have some insight into what happened at that convention, and it makes sense to me. (In the sense that I’ve seen similar things escalate into major conflicts recently in other venues.)

Jesse Cox, I LOVE you analogy of the “spot check” when it comes to “safety tools”. It’s perfect in that it’s 1) clearly accessible to a “trad gamer’s” point of view, and doesn’t like some weird New Age Nonsense ™, but also 2) implies strongly that it’s not the tool itself which will solve the problem, but acts as something which gives us an opportunity to do so ourselves. I think that’s a really important insight, and your analogy “smuggles” that past the reader effortlessly.