alphamale

Possibly.

Last time I used that phrase was when an officer of a company I worked with asked me to take him shooting. His company like most I've ever work with or for had strong anti-weapons-on-premises rules. When we were driving back he asked me if I carried.

Knew that I could answer honestly and he wouldn't jam me up over it. Instead I said, "If I answer that question, I might (or not) create discoverable evidence that you had prior knowledge of someone carrying on your premises, which could (or not) remove your plausible deniability even if something justifiable were to happen, and which could be (or not) against explicit rules that you as an officer of your company are bound to uphold. I would not choose to impose that risk on someone."

From then on he'd ask me if he needed plausible deniability before I would answer a question .

Learned the term "cut-out" from when I was describing this guy who sent me a 5-word barely intelligible email in all caps asking me to call him (about my knife). I'm like 'yeah right' and wrote him off as a dolt. I eventually did call him, and he's a really nice guy and very intelligent person who is also simply completely computer illiterate. Another guy who from email I thought was just strange turned out to be completely normal. Maybe sensitivity level is set too low. But the point was to use a cut-out to shim potential weirdos.

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