{"id":3718,"date":"2011-07-19T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?guid=fb33c5b7e7aa5bb2d096723e8712f067"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:26:01","slug":"decimation-as-removal-of-agency-problem-the-romans-removed-one%e2%80%99s-incentive-to-be-a-coward-and-hurt-others-by-withdrawing-from-combat-if-a-legion-loses-a-battle-and-there-is-suspicion-of-cowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/decimation-as-removal-of-agency-problem-the-romans-removed-one%e2%80%99s-incentive-to-be-a-coward-and-hurt-others-by-withdrawing-from-combat-if-a-legion-loses-a-battle-and-there-is-suspicion-of-cowa\/","title":{"rendered":"DECIMATION as removal of agency problem- The Romans removed one\u2019s incentive to be a coward and hurt others by withdrawing from combat. If a legion loses a battle and there is suspicion of cowardice, ten percent of the surviving soldiers and commanders are put to death, usually by random lottery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DECIMATION as removal of agency problem- The Romans removed one\u2019s incentive to be a coward and hurt others by withdrawing from combat. If a legion loses a battle and there is suspicion of cowardice, ten percent of the surviving soldiers and commanders are put to death, usually by random lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECIMATION as removal of agency problem- The Romans removed one\u2019s incentive to be a coward and hurt others by withdrawing from combat. If a legion loses a battle and there is suspicion of cowardice, ten percent of the surviving soldiers and commander&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}