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Question: Hypothetical: If you were before a firing squad, ready to be killed, but you were given the choice of!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!?
!.!.!.!.!.!.!.saving your life if you denounced your friends, that were your accomplices in selling very sensitive state secrets to foreign powers, would you do it!?

What comes first to you, your life or your cause!?

Thanks for your bravery!.
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I am loyal to my family and friends to a fault!. But there is something between loyalty and stupidity!. Yes, I would denounce my friends in order to save my own life!. What does this say about me!? Www@QuestionHome@Com

Answer only yes or no without any explanation, "Have you stopped beating your wife yet!?"

If you don't have a wife you must answer no!.

If you are married and do not beat your wife you have to answer no!.

If you can answer yes then once upon a time you beat your wife!.

Loaded questions such as the one you asked have no answer!.

This one would not have been involved in the selling of state secrets and is unlikely to end up in front of a firing squad!.

If this one did strongly believe in a cause it would then depend upon the nature of said cause and his depth of support for the same as to which choice he would make!.

Perhaps the best advice is comes from an old TV series where the main character and star repeatedly said, "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime"!. (Barretta, starring Robert Blake)!.

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First, I'd like to say that nothing anyone can say behind the keyboard of a computer is a reliable description of what they will do when their life is on the line!. That said, I suppose that even what I am about to say is unreliable!.!.!.

I like to think that (though I don't think your scenario accurately captures any sort of righteousness) I would die for any cause that I was willing to take the first step!.!.!. That is to say that if I was passionate enough about the cause to oppose my own government, I would not waiver once my life was on the line!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

With applied reasoning and subjective analysis there is no reason why a reconciliation cannot be sought, failing that yes I would rather die, than be bowed to a tyrant or appear a hypocrite!. I would rather remain silent than speak foolishly, and would rather be dead than live life a captive puppet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I can't answer that until I've been in front of a firing squad!. I think that's one of those things that you have to really live to understand!. I'd like to think that I'd be noble enough to die for my friends and my cause, but if it came down to it!.!.!. I don't know!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If giving my life saves any of my friends, then I give it freely!. How can I live with myself with the realization that I sacrificed one of those most dear to me!. Where would it stop!? With me!.!.!. that's where!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If I am of the kind that has no love for the country then what else you expect from me!. I would do the most obvious and denounce my friend!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

No I'm sure I would go peacefully!.
I don't know about torture however, maybe I would have a strong enough mind, or whatever it takes to get through that sort of treatment!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

No!
I would not save my life for any reason!
But I am a survivor of multiple suicide attempts! lol!
But I have come through them "all", by the grace of God!
Praise the Lord!
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I'd tell them what they wanted to hear, then I'd come back and get revenge for my friends and cause!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

they'd probably still lock me up after so i wouldn't cause id rather die then get stuck in jail!.!.!.lol

but seriously i wouldn't anyways!.!.!.!.!.I'd die serving my country Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would die and never denounce my friends!.
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An honest man dies but once!. A coward dies a thousand deaths!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

My friends would come above my cause and my life!. I'd never endanger them for personal gain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I`d like to think I had the courage of Socrates!.
I dunno!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'd tell them lies about my my accomplices

both my life and cause come first!.Www@QuestionHome@Com