ribit sez ~ "This is also a good technique for interrogating uncooperative terrorists. The first one don't say much but ya can't get the second one to shut up.
Sorta like takin' a group of Viet Cong up in a Huey for questioning and inviting the first one to ... uh ... take a leap of faith.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence