I don't know, it would depend on your role, and any hypothetical role your teammates would have too. I know you certainly possess the sort of ego required to believe you could argue anything successfully, so I don't find this very persuasive. Making a "suboptimal" decision that you can then defend as proof of you not being scum is also pretty common for decent scum, provided of course that they can defend the suboptimal angle correctly. And given that you apparently believed there's no reason for any gift giver to claim here, then I think it stands you, as scum, would plausibly believe you could argue it's existence without having to prove it.