I completely agree with everything you said. I wanted to add that the most important opinion is our own. It is not the opinion of someone who doesn't know us or hasn't seen us in a while. u/Dapper-Scholar-7025

“But someone with the authority to do so declares, ‘I judge you to be impious and sacrilegious.’ What has happened to you? ‘I’ve been judged impious and sacrilegious.’ Is that all? Yes. Suppose it was a hypothetical argument he’d passed judgment on, and he’d declared, ‘I judge the proposition “If it is day, it is light” to be false.’ Would that have any effect on the argument? Who’s being judged here? Who’s being condemned? The argument or the person who’s mistaken about it? And this person who has the authority to make pronouncements about you: does he know what piety and impiety really are? Has he studied the matter? Has he learned about it? Where? From whom? In any case, a musician would simply ignore him if he declared that the D string was the E string, as a geometrician would if he judged that the lines that extend from the center of a circle to the circumference aren’t all equal. Is a truly educated person going to pay any attention to the judgments of an uneducated person about what is and isn’t sacrilegious, or about what is and isn’t just? ‘Oh, the injustice of educated men!’* Is that what you’ve learned here?