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Post by Lozzer » Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:59 pm

If your respective government was brought into a state of war with another country because of its own radical and faulty behaviour, and you knew the opposing country was innocent and undeserving if attack, would you betray your nation to the opposing country by becoming a spy or a rebel? Could you do that knowing that your own country would suffer a foreign occupation for an innumerable amount of years?
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Post by Rum » Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:08 pm

Lozzer wrote:If your respective government was brought into a state of war with another country because of its own radical and faulty behaviour, and you knew the opposing country was innocent and undeserving if attack, would you betray your nation to the opposing country by becoming a spy or a rebel? Could you do that knowing that your own country would suffer a foreign occupation for an innumerable amount of years?
Well there are a lot of 'ifs' there. If we assume that the opposing country isn't one which in other respects is nasty (say a dictatorship or Theocracy) then yes. One's nationality is as random as the religion you were born into. If you don't like what your country does you can either ignore it, as long as it leaves you alone more or less (which is what billions of people throughout the world do) or you can work to change it.

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Post by AshtonBlack » Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:20 pm

If there was proof positive AND I was unable in any other way to see/use/distribute this proof (For example in a police state, with no free speech, no freedom of the press etc. etc.) AND assuming that the "end" was ONLY to overthrow the corrupt leadership and NOT to bomb the infrastructure to shit, then possibly.

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Post by Animavore » Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:30 pm

Sure why do you think my great-grandfather moved to Ireland from England? :shifty:
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Post by devogue » Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:59 pm

I would do nothing.

I would keep quiet and try to get on with life.

I'm no hero.

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Post by Martok » Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:30 pm

Lozzer wrote:If your respective government was brought into a state of war with another country because of its own radical and faulty behaviour, and you knew the opposing country was innocent and undeserving if attack, would you betray your nation to the opposing country by becoming a spy or a rebel? Could you do that knowing that your own country would suffer a foreign occupation for an innumerable amount of years?
Provided the country getting its ass kicked wasn't oppressive, I would protest and publicly criticize my government but I would not spy against it.

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Post by Azathoth » Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:42 pm

Animavore wrote:Sure why do you think my great-grandfather moved to Ireland from England? :shifty:
He ran out of potatoes and enjoyed digging holes?
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Post by Animavore » Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:46 pm

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Animavore wrote:Sure why do you think my great-grandfather moved to Ireland from England? :shifty:
He ran out of potatoes and enjoyed digging holes?
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Post by Svartalf » Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:12 pm

Lozzer wrote:If your respective government was brought into a state of war with another country because of its own radical and faulty behaviour, and you knew the opposing country was innocent and undeserving if attack, would you betray your nation to the opposing country by becoming a spy or a rebel? Could you do that knowing that your own country would suffer a foreign occupation for an innumerable amount of years?
I already regard dog poo as a higher lifeform than the politicos I have available, let alone those in power... for the right price (which need not be high, just right), I'd gladly betray them... heck, I might applaud if the Germans invaded again.
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Post by RuleBritannia » Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:13 pm

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Lozzer wrote:If your respective government was brought into a state of war with another country because of its own radical and faulty behaviour, and you knew the opposing country was innocent and undeserving if attack, would you betray your nation to the opposing country by becoming a spy or a rebel? Could you do that knowing that your own country would suffer a foreign occupation for an innumerable amount of years?
I already regard dog poo as a higher lifeform than the politicos I have available, let alone those in power... for the right price (which need not be high, just right), I'd gladly betray them... heck, I might applaud if the Germans invaded again.
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Post by Tigger » Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:39 pm

I thought you meant this If...., but it was If..., not If.....

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Post by Pappa » Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:02 pm

devogue wrote:I would do nothing.

I would keep quiet and try to get on with life.

I'm no hero.
If I didn't have kids, I'd betray my own nation.... partly for the ethics, partly for the excitement of it all. As it is, I'd keep my head down and get on with life.
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Post by normal » Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:06 pm

Pappa wrote:
devogue wrote:I would do nothing.

I would keep quiet and try to get on with life.

I'm no hero.
If I didn't have kids, I'd betray my own nation.... partly for the ethics, partly for the excitement of it all. As it is, I'd keep my head down and get on with life.
I'm also no hero. I do whatever I know I will get away with
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Post by Beelzebub2 » Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:37 pm

Couldn't care less about this or any other government, political issue etc so I wouldn't do anything that might jeopardize my life and lives of those close to me, it simply isn't worth it. Politicians can take care of their own arses.

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