Fant0m wrote on 10/04/11 at 11:55:00:This will not change the fact that people will still know how many lives we have left at THIS or THAT point of the game...
Mihawk wrote on 10/01/11 at 03:00:11:What the crap are you sayiiiiing

the guy will shoot himself and the smartass will lose a life instead.
As already pointed out, if someone is winning, that doesn't make it easy for everyone else to take them out. The winning person doesn't know if they are only being targeted by one person (if they self-shoot and no one targets them, they die), and everyone else won't know if the winning person is self-shooting (if he does self-shoot, anyone targeting him will die).
This is why it's important that who did what is anonymous (shot counts shouldn't be anonymous though), because if someone self-shoots and gains the advantage, everyone else would know that the person can't self-shoot again and he won't be able to prevent the next obvious move.
Also, as already posted in the OP, people can lead you on during the game should they act like they're agreeing to coordinate. Just like Mafia, people can say whatever they want, but can also do whatever they want. So it makes for an interesting mind game.