Most people will know of the truism among sportsmen in all contact sports that it’s always the guy who hits back who gets penalized by the refs — because, unlike an aggressor who can pick his time to strike, he’s the one they’re most likely to see. But this is really just a part of the much larger problem of context. A dishonest person who is in a position to manipulate contexts — that is, the part of the whole picture of an event or an idea which people are in a position to see — is also in a position to manipulate, almost at will, what they think about it. By the same token, an honest person will always show that he is honest by taking into account contextual considerations that run counter to his own view of the matter and therefore must be acknowledged, either to be explained …