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To: Lazamataz

Laz, so let’s say you came across classified docs that revealed in the next month a high profile “faked” terrorist attack would be set off in NYC (or pick a city) where 100s would die and untold severe injuries would also result.

Thereafter, the Gov would enact more severe restrictions on freedom via laws, you wouldn’t leak?


156 posted on 06/09/2013 2:15:56 PM PDT by roofgoat
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To: roofgoat
Laz, so let’s say you came across classified docs that revealed in the next month a high profile “faked” terrorist attack would be set off in NYC (or pick a city) where 100s would die and untold severe injuries would also result. Thereafter, the Gov would enact more severe restrictions on freedom via laws, you wouldn’t leak?

In a court of law, hypotheticals are disallowed. Further, what you have offered me is a Hobson's Choice, in which both options are unacceptable.

I will humor you anyways.

I couldn't break my oath. My integrity is vital to my entire life.

I would IMMEDIATELY quit in protest, IMMEDIATELY relocate to another country, and IMMEDIATELY renounce my citizenship. I would even try to thwart the plot.

But I would not defy my oath of secrecy.

See the difference? I would forever work against such an evil government; I would warn the world about her. But I would not betray MYSELF by breaking an oath. Yes, people would die. That, I would have to live with, and it would be VERY tough.

I will work strenously to avoid ever being placed in this Hobsons Choice of a position. I can understand someone making a different choice than I would.

175 posted on 06/09/2013 2:24:37 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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