Volume
How strongly you project your thoughts and emotions into the world.
Harold Koh and the Hard Line on Sheikh Robo
Volume is about how strongly you project your position into the world. Harold Koh had been in these meetings before, raising concerns, making arguments. But this time he turned the volume all the way up — not louder in tone, but more absolute in content. Using the word 'unambiguous' in a legal and bureaucratic context is the equivalent of shouting. Harold Koh stopped murmuring objections and made his position impossible to quietly set aside.