The thing about being on a sinking ship is that you first feel a sense of loyalty and compassion for the captain, depending on your existing relationship with said captain, of course. It’s only natural that this sense of loyalty may cause you to attempt to hide or cover the tiny hole when it first becomes evident. You try to plug the hole with gum, putty, or plaster. And, for a while, it might seem that your efforts will succeed. But as the captain remains negligent and the hole gets larger, you realize that your ship-repair methods must evolve in order for you to restore things to your sense of normalcy.
However, when that sense of normalcy fails to return in spite of your best efforts, you have no choice but to give up. Of course, by this time you really don’t care. In fact, you are now showing the gaping hole in the side of ship to anyone who will look. You feel like a fool, but the urge to be set free by the truth is too strong to resist. So, you proceed to jump up and down like a drunken sailor while pointing out the water that is now seeping into the ship.
And when the ship is filling with water, it’s difficult to find loyalty for the person responsible for the structural damage.
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