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Originally Posted by dinesh
So many times in life people dig themselves into deeper and deeper holes when just being honest and direct would yield better results.
To be fair, many times rules are established that do not incentivize people to be honest and direct. People rationally dig deeper because they have no incentive to stop.
For example, if this player knew as total certainty that this room had a zero-tolerance policy for mistakes like this, his options are to admit he has the cards (and get permabanned 100% of the time) or pretend he doesn't have them (and get permabanned 99% of the time, managing to dump them under the table or something 1% of thw time).
The solution is to have a dynamic range in punishment - so that people who admit they accidentally swiped cards get punished less than people who admit they intentionally swiped cards, who in turn get punished less than people caught swiping cards without admitting it.
But then the problem is that hard-liners will accuse you of tolerating theft if you give admitted thieves or admitted accident-causers anything less than a complete permaban.