I’m going to start off by pretending this post is about soccer. Accountability for attackers and defenders Something that I don’t feel the need to prove, because it just seems to be a given — something so obvious in how we think about sports — involves the difference between the sorts of behavior we expect, afford, and even value for defenders compared to the sorts of behaviors we expect, afford, and value for attackers (specifically behaviors around compliance with the rules). It’s just kind of accepted that defenders, by virtue of their jobs and their responsibilities, are allowed to get away with a little more. Sometimes we imagine defenders as rugged, utilitarians, their only task to keep the ball out of the net, and this next part is important: