“In particular, it’s a recent development that I would have noticed my friend’s unilateral demand for fairness as in fact tilted towards MAPLE”—To recast that perspective slightly more sympathetically, if applied consistently, it isn’t just titled towards MAPLE but tilted towards “the defendant”. But beyond that it has the advantage of reducing conflict. It has downsides too as you’ve described.
“In particular, it’s a recent development that I would have noticed my friend’s unilateral demand for fairness as in fact tilted towards MAPLE”—To recast that perspective slightly more sympathetically, if applied consistently, it isn’t just titled towards MAPLE but tilted towards “the defendant”. But beyond that it has the advantage of reducing conflict. It has downsides too as you’ve described.