{"id":2391,"date":"2022-05-30T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2022-05-30T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T01:30:13","slug":"plea-bargaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/plea-bargaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea Bargaining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish people were better at\u2014plea bargaining, rather than pretending to be innocent. You accuse someone of [negative-valence description of trait or behavior that they're totally doing], and they say, \"No, I'm not\", and I'm just like ... really? How dumb do you think we are?<\/p>\n<p>I think when people accuse <em>me<\/em> of [negative-valence description of trait or behavior], I'm usually more like, \"Okay, I can see what you're getting at, but I actually think it's more like [different negative-valence description of trait or behavior], which I claim is a pretty reasonable thing to do given my goals and incentives.\"<\/p>\n<p>(Because I usually <em>can<\/em> see what they're getting at! Even if their goal is just to attack me, attackers know to choose something <em>plausible<\/em>, because why would you attack someone with a charge that has no hope of sticking?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish people were better at\u2014plea bargaining, rather than pretending to be innocent. You accuse someone of [negative-valence description of trait or behavior that they're totally doing], and they say, \"No, I'm not\", and I'm just like ... really? How &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/plea-bargaining\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}