Neither full-contact psychoanalysis nor focusing on the object-level debate seems like a good way to proceed in the face of a regulatory commission. Instead, the regulatory commission should just spend its own resources checking what’s true, and maybe ask the parties in the debate to account for their deviances from the regulatory commission’s findings. Or if the regulatory commission is a sort of zombie commission that doesn’t have the capacity to understand reality, each member in the conflict could do whatever rituals best manipulate the commission to their own benefit.
This also kind of reveals why bad faith is so invalidating. If the regulatory commission can trust others to outsource its investigations, then it might be able to save resources. However, that mainly works if those others act in sufficiently good faith that they aren’t a greater resource sink than investigating it directly and/or just steamrolling the others with a somewhat-flawed regulatory authority.
Neither full-contact psychoanalysis nor focusing on the object-level debate seems like a good way to proceed in the face of a regulatory commission. Instead, the regulatory commission should just spend its own resources checking what’s true, and maybe ask the parties in the debate to account for their deviances from the regulatory commission’s findings. Or if the regulatory commission is a sort of zombie commission that doesn’t have the capacity to understand reality, each member in the conflict could do whatever rituals best manipulate the commission to their own benefit.
This also kind of reveals why bad faith is so invalidating. If the regulatory commission can trust others to outsource its investigations, then it might be able to save resources. However, that mainly works if those others act in sufficiently good faith that they aren’t a greater resource sink than investigating it directly and/or just steamrolling the others with a somewhat-flawed regulatory authority.