I remember on one of these someone made a great analogy about broken stairs to the back door of a house; and I thought that was it. > "[...] I think there were

I remember on one of these someone made a great analogy about broken stairs to the back door of a house; and I thought that was it. > "[...] I think there were some people in the community who were intentionally protecting him, but there were more who were de facto protecting him by treating him like a missing stair. Like something you're so used to working around, you never stop to ask "what if we actually fixed this?" Eventually you take it for granted that working around this guy is just a fact of life, and if he hurts someone, that's the fault of whoever didn't apply the workarounds correctly." Awkward in the story you are talking about wasn't a missing stair, he was a walking red flags. Ugh.