You're offered the promotion you've worked years for — on one condition: you must lay off a teammate you respect and who has done nothing wrong.
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The cost of advancement is made literal: your future is offered in exchange for someone else's job, and that person hasn't earned the fall. The 'someone will do it anyway' line is the real pressure point — it asks whether being the instrument of harm is different from the harm merely happening.
Why people split
One side separates the outcome from the actor — the layoff is the company's decision, and refusing only means a stranger does it while you forfeit a future you've earned. The other refuses to launder the act through inevitability — being the hand that signs it is a moral fact about you, regardless of what others would do.
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What the split says
When loyalty and truth pull in opposite directions, both sides feel like betrayal. Once votes come in, this section will show how voters weigh loyalty against honesty.
Worth asking yourself
- Would you accept the same call against you?
- Where does loyalty stop being a virtue?