Tactful ways to inform people that they're playing badly?

[Gaethan_Tessula]

Equity has a specific meaning: equality of outcome.

This is incorrect. If you go to a union meeting where the union is demanding equity, it does not mean they are demanding to paid the same as the CEO (an equality of outcome). It means they want a living wage as full time workers and fair treatment by the employer as fellow human beings. Equity and equality in both the forms you mentioned are three different concepts. I used the word I used because it was the correct one, not to play linguistic tricks as you seem to be accusing me of in the next few sentences of your reply.

I was on your side because the other guy really started it, but when you came in and started proselytizing your cult is when you lost me. Now despite the fact I thought you were in the right initially, I'm actually more on the. side of the other guy than you because the differences in tact I have with him I can work by choosing or not choosing to engage.

Applicable to the thread at hand. Perhaps I should have used "fairness" instead of something more jargon'y, esp. since it wouldn't have changed the actual intent of my meaning any.

Proof in concept that how one approaches giving advice does affect how it's received.

So thank you for that feedback.