# A case study in TALKING TO THE POLICE AND HANGING YOURSELF with your own words **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-case-study-in-talking-to-the-police-and-hanging-yourself-with-your-own-words/939341 "2021-04-03T19:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 209
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-case-study-in-talking-to-the-police-and-hanging-yourself-with-your-own-words/939341/209 "2021-04-24T04:44:11Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Doesn’t matter what I call it. It matters what your state calls it. At the end of the day the state is imposing a penalty on you for an action you took. Maybe it was for murder or maybe it was for going 40 in a 30. The state can call each whatever they want; label it whatever they want. But it is the same thing for both at the end of the day. Only a difference of degrees. The state imposes a rule. The state punishes those who break the rule. If the state wants to say traffic rules are lollipops and bunny rules it changes nothing. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-case-study-in-talking-to-the-police-and-hanging-yourself-with-your-own-words/939341)._