If you had to choose

[PandoraGlitters]

Watching MI5 this afternoon got me thinking--if you had to choose between betraying your country or betraying your love (assuming you truly were in love) which would you choose?

 

[Angeline]

I'm so over betrayal. I'd give the peace sign and walk away.

 

[mynameisben]

I live and die for those I love. End of story.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

I'm so over betrayal. I'd give the peace sign and walk away.

Subversive.

I have dual citizenship so I would probably betray one of my countries and run away to the other. Unless people would be harmed in which case I suppose I'd do the shot in the head thing.

 

[Angeline]

Subversive.

I have dual citizenship so I would probably betray one of my countries and run away to the other. Unless people would be harmed in which case I suppose I'd do the shot in the head thing.

Usually. My other thought was I'd betray them both for asking me to choose. I can't help myself: I always want the road less travelled.

 

[Tzara]

Watching MI5 this afternoon got me thinking--if you had to choose between betraying your country or betraying your love (assuming you truly were in love) which would you choose?

That's kind of impossible to answer, as the question itself alters your feelings about things. For example, if the choice was betraying my love because she had been, oh treasonous or I discovered she was a terrorist mole, then that might alter my love for her. On the other hand, if she had done, or was contemplating doing, something technically treasonous but morally right (at least in her eyes)--releasing the Pentagon Papers, for example--then I would likely not see siding with her as betraying my country. I'd be influenced by things like whether her actions threatened people's lives or whether they constituted embarrassment for the government. I wouldn't want to be party to starting a war, for example.

Mostly, I suspect I would side with my love. It may sound unpatriotic, but I love my wife more than I love my country.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

That's kind of impossible to answer, as the question itself alters your feelings about things. . . .
Mostly, I suspect I would side with my love. It may sound unpatriotic, but I love my wife more than I love my country.

I think that the crux of the question lies in which one trusts more: one's government or one's lover. I have had reasons to doubt both in the past. Luckier now, I think. *fingers crossed*

 

[The_Fool]

Both have betrayed me. The question is, which one has betrayed me more.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Hm. Interesting question, Fool. A small betrayal by someone close may feel bigger than a life-altering betrayal put in motion by the abstracted state.