You may question my convictions and what they mean all you want to. You have every right to be wrong. The question is wether or not you would accept how wrong you are.
You may find it an easy choice to decide between your honor asto truth and pitching it out with money you would pay to someone accusing you of something you did not do.
I find the choice easy also.
Notice how you would chose to do that and I would not.
You may well bow to extortion at the expense of your honor and I support your choice to do that. Please understand that I would not do so and you should support my choice to do so , rather than claim I would make the same choice you would....or even that I should.
I know you think you know what you would do in their situation or a similar one. However, you are only thinking of the situation in theory. You are not in fact faced with that decision.
This is much like those of us who have never been in combat speculating on how we would do. You can hope you would perform well. You can never know how will do until faced with the reality.
Similarly, you are not faced with decades in prison. I certainly would not tell you, that you should pay the pest to go way rather than go before a Durham jury.
There are two things I think everyone should realize about such situations:
1. Settlement implies nothing about guilt or innocence.
2. We do not know with certainty what we would do in similar circumstances.