The context suggests that there needs to be at least enough “qualification and training” to render the proposed member independent of “local gradients of power and popularity.” I don’t think how many words one has read, or one’s moral intuitions, really contribute to that objective. In contrast, having a relevant professional license—while not a panacea—requires formation in the profession’s norms and a relevant education that is not bound up in “local gradients of power and popularity.”
I’m not getting it, because it’s too easy for me to construct a hypothetical qualified and trained person to just not be independent of local gradients of power and popularity, and my model of what’s needed to do a good job in these situations is actually quite attainable by certain dispositions/temperaments in informal ways.
I’m not inherently against this. But one problem is that it’s not clear who is qualified/trained and who is not. There’s currently no Yelp or Trustpilot for sexual harassment/abuse mediators. In contrast, I know a lawyer has my best interests in mind legally because I hired them and am paying them.
The context suggests that there needs to be at least enough “qualification and training” to render the proposed member independent of “local gradients of power and popularity.” I don’t think how many words one has read, or one’s moral intuitions, really contribute to that objective. In contrast, having a relevant professional license—while not a panacea—requires formation in the profession’s norms and a relevant education that is not bound up in “local gradients of power and popularity.”
I’m not getting it, because it’s too easy for me to construct a hypothetical qualified and trained person to just not be independent of local gradients of power and popularity, and my model of what’s needed to do a good job in these situations is actually quite attainable by certain dispositions/temperaments in informal ways.
I’m not inherently against this. But one problem is that it’s not clear who is qualified/trained and who is not. There’s currently no Yelp or Trustpilot for sexual harassment/abuse mediators. In contrast, I know a lawyer has my best interests in mind legally because I hired them and am paying them.