I was talking about selfless in the terms of you letting the people you care about make their own choices. Even if you know they're wrong.
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Dying so others can live is a choice. Living at the expense of others is also a choice.
And I had no issue with your choice. To be fucking blunt, when I saw what you were doing, I told my unitmates not to offer your unit aid - even though that was their gut reaction. And I didn't do it for any fucking noble reason. What you said is true - your unit usually comes out unscathed. So if you wanted to throw yourself under the bus, then by all means - join the rest of us in the experience.
The problem is your unit as a whole is too well-liked or others feel too protective of it to let you go down in flames. You're all poster children for innocence and hope and---
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You need to really work on sabotaging your PR if you want to be able to get away with a stunt like that.
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[Pauses. Thinking about how best to word this]
Dying so others can live is a choice. Living at the expense of others is also a choice.
And I had no issue with your choice. To be fucking blunt, when I saw what you were doing, I told my unitmates not to offer your unit aid - even though that was their gut reaction. And I didn't do it for any fucking noble reason. What you said is true - your unit usually comes out unscathed. So if you wanted to throw yourself under the bus, then by all means - join the rest of us in the experience.
The problem is your unit as a whole is too well-liked or others feel too protective of it to let you go down in flames. You're all poster children for innocence and hope and---
[Vague hand motion. Those things]
You need to really work on sabotaging your PR if you want to be able to get away with a stunt like that.