"Square" means the set rules were followed by the winner, "Fair" means any conflict over the set rules was adjudicated neutrally.
I think you're using your notion of moral authority as grounds for censorship then. "lacks moral authority" under your usage means "should not speak about this" which I disagree with. they should speak, and if confronted with their past inconsistency, should reconcile too.
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Doing the latter FIRST would help them regain some moral authority. However, to a first approximation absolutely no one ever does that. And also, I would never argue they should not be allowed to speak. I just don't think anybody should listen to them.
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this is the core of our disagreement. I have a strong preference to evaluate the statement itself (at least insofar as I can glean its intended meaning in context) without respect to whom the speaker is
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In my experience such statements in this context will either be trivially obvious (in which case we don't need their additional input) or self-serving attempts to deflect blame and muddy the water.
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This is so pervasively true that the theoretical rare exception is so rare as to justify the use of this heuristic to discount the value of their information to zero.
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To phrase it differently, the world is full of useful information: the chance that there is a significant amount which is held *only* by some unrepentant hypocrite somewhere is so low as to not be worth considering. In my opinion.
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Whereas the chance that the information they are attempting to provide is *not* useful is so high that it justifies disregarding them. Also in my opinion.
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