Open Bankruptcy Project methodology · citation mirror at bankruptcymill.org
The Soft Documentary Trap is a drafting form in which the addressee is asked to substantiate or identify a claim already known to be unsupportable, producing three good outcomes: (a) the addressee commits to a falsifiable position, which becomes ammunition; (b) the addressee backtracks, which becomes admission; (c) the addressee declines to respond, which itself becomes a documentary exhibit of refusal. The trap relies on withholding the refutation up front, preserving downstream ambush value for bar motion practice and later evidentiary use. The structure converts every possible response (including silence) into usable record.