The counsel a lwa gives is delivered publicly, in front of the family, by someone else's mouth, and it is frequently very specific — naming what a person has failed to do, whom they have wronged, what promise stands unkept. Vodouwizan describe this as uncomfortably exact. Functionally a great deal of what a service accomplishes is family conflict resolution, delivered by a party who cannot be accused of partiality, cannot be argued with, and will not be present afterwards to be resented. The mounted person, having no memory, cannot be held responsible for what was said, which removes the ordinary social cost of saying it. Anthropologists have written about this at length as a mechanism, and the observation does not exhaust what participants take themselves to be dealing with — but the mechanism is real and Haitians describe it themselves.