Ninth: A Tactical Decision (Text; anon)

[corpsewarblade]

(TW: Murder/Sororicide, Betrayal, DR Spoilers)

[The last few months had given Mukuro a lot to think about- especially with regard to her own death back home. One part still didn't make any sense to her:

What had she done wrong? Why had Junko killed her?

...It was with those thoughts swimming around in her head that she sent another late night message to the network.]

27 AUG XX, 0324

Reviewing the strategy from a recent battle at home. I want to understand the rational for the decisions taken.

A soldier is engaged in a stealth/undercover mission. However, they have made a mistake that risks the operation's success, and have not realised their error.

The mission commander is in a position to eliminate the operative to preserve their mission, without exposing themselves in the process.

Is that course of action reasonable? To put it another way- under what circumstances would you consider sacrificing one of your own men to ensure a mission's success or to prevent it's failure?

Don't feel you have to answer.


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Comments

[corpsewarblade]

The main agreement is that if one life needs to be sacrificed to save a large group, that is acceptable. Outside of that, opinions divided.

I don't like it. But it's for the mission. For my Commander.

You believe the strategy was acceptable?

[impostorsyndrome]

I said reasonable.

But yeah. I guess I'd say it's acceptable too. Coming at it through the lens of war, there's no such thing as honor. Just people fighting for what they've decided to fight for, without right or wrong. You have to be able to do that to keep going under those circumstances, no matter what the sacrifice is.

At least, that's how I've seen it unfold.

But I'll admit it. I wouldn't be alive right now myself if it weren't for someone who didn't feel the same way sparing my life.

[corpsewarblade]

Yes. Exactly that. People fight for what they choose to fight for. 'Right' or 'wrong' don't really come into it. But a lot of my friends here would be appalled by that. I guess that makes them better people than me.

Would you have rather they killed you, or are you glad they made that choice? I don't know how to feel about the fact I wasn't spared.

[impostorsyndrome]

I'm not gonna go into a whole fake-hypothetical situation myself here, cuz I'd be obvious as hell, but I will say that one person's right is another person's wrong, and anyone who thinks there's always an objectively correct response is fooling themselves.

That's a complicated question.

I dunno. I guess I'm with you. I don't know how to feel about the fact that I WAS spared. It makes zero sense to me.

[corpsewarblade]

I guess in the end none of it makes sense. It's complicated and messy and painful.

My goals weren't noble or anything. I just wanted to stay at her side and carry out her orders, so she'd achieve her goals.

[impostorsyndrome]

Yeah. It's a shitty answer, isn't it? That there's no good answer, and it's just complicated, and everyone just does what they do for their own reasons in the end, noble or not. Just the way people work.

But I'm sorry. I know how that feels, too. Giving your everything for someone else's goals. I don't regret that relationship, but I also can't imagine how it'd feel to have it end the way it did for you.