[toyg]

You have a career, a family, a nice house, and you want to keep all that. You want that promotion, that niche holiday, and you know how fragile all this lifestyle is - if you sound “confrontational”, “rocking the boat”, you’ll get freezed out. Your boss tells you his boss wants you to go and find something, anything, maybe with a bit of spiel about duty to the country and all that. Your whole community is so proud: contributing to the war effort! Proving Americans are just!

Would you really say no, even when you have a hunch that it’s all just song & dance...?

[LatteLazy]

I don't know if I'd say yes or no. But if I said yes, I'd know the whole thing was BS (just like he did) and go knowing that. Unlike him, I wouldn't interrogate any old men until they cried (especially if I could avoid doing so by just not bribing people!?). And I would not come back and decades later, long after anyone stopped giving a shit, write a long article where I pretended going made me the good guy and I was duped. I'd slink off and be ashamed while I bought my new jetski or whatever.

[ta999999171]

Yes, because I would never take a job that could ever put me in that position.

Being "successful" to me is far less important than being happy/not being a piece of shit to the rest of the world.

Altruistic? Or just not a selfish scumbag? You decide.