But also, and following Paul Waters' message: perhaps it is not so simple
as that, perhaps it is not always -better to believe- in the capacity of
the abstract someone, than not to. To believe that someone might do
something were they to choose to, is to make their failure to choose
contentious (or interesting); this could be at the expense of
recognizing how it might rather be that they are restricted or unable, and
therefore at the expense also of taking -this- to be what is contentious
about their predicament. Or: that people's -predicaments- could be more
practically decisive than their -characters-.
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