i feel weirdly capable of putting myself in both kavansdfskfghs position and also in whatsername's position except that i honestly will never seek any kind of public role because I can imagine this playing out in exactly the same way it did for him, I have thought about this
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and, switching positions, if I were ever asked to testify to the character of this one particular person were they up for office or w/e, I wouldn't, I just wouldn't i havent seen any kind of justice or retribution and i don't care to there's nothing to be gained for me
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my hunch is that this is in a class of crimes that are just very challenging to deal with effectively, and often the best solution is for participants to remove each other from one another's (but I need to think about this too) but its just really difficult! and . . .
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there's an important role for criminal courts here, and it roughly (if hardly costlessly) worked as intended in my case in criminal courts, there's at least a _chance_ for evidence to be presented systematically, and a high threshold for punishment but this role is *limited*
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so---- thinking about this mechanistically, what is the aim of a public congressional hearing? what do we hope to accomplish? no matter how I turn this, I cant see these proceedings as being a good mechanism for either (i) revealing truth, or (ii) resolving conflict
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Maybe a separate investigation reveals some novel information (kind of doubt it but) But not a public hearing with huge stakes on the outcome. Just perfectly structured to incentive everyone to obfuscate and distort. And as a means of resolving conflict--it draws in Everyone!
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did you have to fight a false charge at some point?
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you need to drive them out before you and hear the lamentations of their women etc etc
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Heh the Conan response curiously never occurred to me More like "how can I never ever interact with this person again and as soon as possible" I'm okay, old news you know? And no lasting damage
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