If we have to give them protection when it all burns, we lost.

Let me explain.

Imagine you're a race car driver and the person at the back of the grid cuts all the way to the front, openly cheating for the whole race. Taking people out, cutting corners, tampering with the other competitors' cars etc etc.

When they get caught, their punishment is just to return to the back of the pack and nothing else.

That wouldn't be fair in sport and it isn't fair here. We need to allow their failure to put them in an objectively worse position than when they started.

If we have to give them protection when it all burns, we lost.

Let me explain.

Imagine you're a race car driver and the person at the back of the grid cuts all the way to the front, openly cheating for the whole race.

When they get caught, their punishment is just to return to the back of the pack and nothing else.

That wouldn't be fair in sport and it isn't fair here. We need to allow their failure to put them in an objectively worse position than when they started.