On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:00 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
<agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/20/2020 2:49 PM, James Cook via agora-business wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 01:31, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote:
> >>> On May 19, 2020, at 21:27, nch wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 8:07:27 PM CDT Publius Scribonius Scholasticus 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I vote REMAND.
> >>>
> >>> Why remand instead of remit? Alexis can't actually rejudge it right now.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> nch
> >>
> >> That’s true, but I want to symbolically communicate my confidence in 
> >> Alexis’s ability to judge the case.
> >
> > I vote REMAND for the same reason.
> >
>
> Not that it's a big deal, but this seems like odd logic - Alexis has
> judged the case.  Why not AFFIRM if you're respecting judgement ability?
> No new facts or arguments have been presented, so this is being overturned
> on wholly a matter of people's opinions differing from Alexis.  REMAND is
> as much "your opinion is wrong" as a REMIT in that situation, right?
>
> -G.
>

In my opinion, REMAND is "your opinion is wrong, so revise it", while
REMIT is "your opinion is wrong and I don't trust you to revise it". I
don't think that that's the message that others are sending, but
that's how the two options seem in my mind.

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