CoH: discretion?

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Originally Posted by Anthony

I would note that some people actually have this as a perk or advantage, in that they have a specific exemption to rules on testifying.

That’s not really the same kind of thing as the CoH though; its a legal immunity that doesn’t mean you won’t tell, it just means you can’t be forced by the State. You could have that without the CoH, vice versa, or both together. (It might come with a social or legal prohibition tied to the immunity, which I guess is conceptually a kind of Duty accompanying the Legal Immunity, but usually it should be non-Hazardous and low enough frequency of appearance to not be worth points.)

Of course, if you have the legal immunity and it applies to the same set of secrets as the CoH, it should reduce the value of the CoH (probably to no more than a quirk in most circumstances), since it reduces the potential consequences of upholding the CoH.