To me your phrase 'skin in the debate' sums up my feelings about the debate we're having here. I feel that everyone who wrote historically had skin in the deba

To me your phrase 'skin in the debate' sums up my feelings about the debate we're having here. I feel that everyone who wrote historically had skin in the debate and as such I mentally categorise them the same way I treat almost every journalist today. Writers are motivated to choose every word carefully to convince people of their opinions. They mention or exclude people and events for various reasons. The more polarising the subject the less I trust anyone's words, even twenty centuries later.