Whitehat wrote..

If this is a hard decision, how are we supposed to handle the really hard ones in terms of righting the culture. They are coming.

That is a really good point. I'll be honest and admit that for a brief period I did consider going the fake card route. I had the .pdf downloaded and ready to go, but then it started to bug me in the back of my mind. Did I really want to be that guy who lacked the moral character to do the right thing, even knowing it could have a personal cost to me? I came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth having to live with that, so I didn't. It changes how I view these sort of decisions going forward though, so in an odd way, perhaps I'm a better person now than I was then for having had to wrestle with that dilemma. And I think you're right. There are going to be hard times coming and to weather those we will all certainly need moral character.