Remember the to need to paint with a 2 inch paint brush if the elder tells you? Well refusing to wear a face mask, let alone not turning up to your judicial is a double whammy as far as someone is concerned.
They have found no fault with this person. The person is willing to be corrected if they find any fault. So far - zero faults identified by body of elders. Except of course you know they'll find fault with not going along with Watchtower rules.
Kramer - surely you know enough about these people to know that something as petty as this does go on in WT-land. Yes I am being a bit jokey about it when I say 'is this new light' - no it isn't. But it is their usual petty making of rules - picking out gnats while gulping down camels and preparing to df someone who has done nothing wrong. Except tell them they are wrong on certain scriptural points and highlight some of their less than Christian actions.
(Matthew 23:23-24) . . .“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you give the tenth of the mint and the dill and the cumin, but you have disregarded the weightier matters of the Law, namely, justice and mercy and faithfulness. These things it was binding to do, yet not to disregard the other things. 24 Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but gulp down the camel. . .