Even if your superiors know what really happened, they’ll want you to fabricate a plausible lie for the public story. They’ll also want you to carry the risk so that if the truth does eventually come out they can deny knowing about the coverup.
When the agent willingly chooses into death, I don’t think there is any significant risk to take on left.
There is the side of responcibility of bearing shame which can transcend death. I guess I found an aspect of it I didn’t previously realise, when you think a situation will only resolve with an evil act and you could punt the decision to be made by another party it can seem like a favour to make the act happen via the party that carries the stain most gracefully.
The setting seems so morally grey that being complicit with the coverup would be that large of a blip in the radar. Later on when the generals disagree with the emperors confidants they pretty much do a coup by excluding the capital people from decision making. Part of the danger from Ripper from Strangelove is that he can just act as if he received an order without actually receiving one. When Kido acts without consultation how does he know that he is not operating with a faulty “bodily fluids” motive? What is the difference between a coup and exercising implicit autonomy, if any?
Even if your superiors know what really happened, they’ll want you to fabricate a plausible lie for the public story. They’ll also want you to carry the risk so that if the truth does eventually come out they can deny knowing about the coverup.
When the agent willingly chooses into death, I don’t think there is any significant risk to take on left.
There is the side of responcibility of bearing shame which can transcend death. I guess I found an aspect of it I didn’t previously realise, when you think a situation will only resolve with an evil act and you could punt the decision to be made by another party it can seem like a favour to make the act happen via the party that carries the stain most gracefully.
The setting seems so morally grey that being complicit with the coverup would be that large of a blip in the radar. Later on when the generals disagree with the emperors confidants they pretty much do a coup by excluding the capital people from decision making. Part of the danger from Ripper from Strangelove is that he can just act as if he received an order without actually receiving one. When Kido acts without consultation how does he know that he is not operating with a faulty “bodily fluids” motive? What is the difference between a coup and exercising implicit autonomy, if any?