There is a big difference between not wanting to work with someone because you don’t like their ethics (looking at you Kerry) and thinking they are going to commit the century’s worst fraud.
I don’t think anyone asking for more information about what people knew believes that central actors knew anything about fraud. If that is what you think, then maybe therein lies the rub. It is more that strong signs of bad ethics are important signals and your example of Kerry is perhaps a good one. Imagine if people had concerns with someone on the level of what they had with Kerry (plausible in the case of SBF—that is what it important to find out) and despite that promoted Kerry to be one of the few faces of the movement. That would be problematic and it is important to figure out what happened. That’s not a witch hunt.
Also, it is very surprising to me that you don’t hold the belief that many people treat e.g. Will as a central figure to defer to. Given what you’ve written it sounds like you are quite central so maybe get exposed to different people who have more eye-to-eye contact with Will, but it is certainly my experience that most people confer star power on Will. You are right that that doesn’t make it Will’s fault. I am just trying to claim that I don’t think you claim that people don’t treat him like a philosopher king hasn’t been my experience at all.
I don’t think anyone asking for more information about what people knew believes that central actors knew anything about fraud. If that is what you think, then maybe therein lies the rub. It is more that strong signs of bad ethics are important signals and your example of Kerry is perhaps a good one. Imagine if people had concerns with someone on the level of what they had with Kerry (plausible in the case of SBF—that is what it important to find out) and despite that promoted Kerry to be one of the few faces of the movement. That would be problematic and it is important to figure out what happened. That’s not a witch hunt.
Also, it is very surprising to me that you don’t hold the belief that many people treat e.g. Will as a central figure to defer to. Given what you’ve written it sounds like you are quite central so maybe get exposed to different people who have more eye-to-eye contact with Will, but it is certainly my experience that most people confer star power on Will. You are right that that doesn’t make it Will’s fault. I am just trying to claim that I don’t think you claim that people don’t treat him like a philosopher king hasn’t been my experience at all.