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.
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.