It'd be an outright lie for me to say that some folks don't try and prove themselves by coming into conflict with a specific person more famous than them. But

It'd be an outright lie for me to say that some folks don't try and prove themselves by coming into conflict with a specific person more famous than them. But I also think it's a somewhat inevitable outcome that as you become a focal point for attention you'd better be ready for said scrutiny and for you to be interpreted within the dialogues other people are having. Asking people to do otherwise is absurd, they cannot.