If I was the manager/leader/boss, I would feel it incumbent on me to volunteer. Don't honestly know if I would be brave enough, although I hope I would.

I would trade myself for hostages, no question.

The notion of going on after others were harmed in my place is unthinkable. I'm not sure that is any form of bravery, truth to tell.

But then you'd have been harmed in their place, even mor specifically because you traded yourself for them, rather than being picked more or less at random.

But then you'd have been harmed in their place, even mor specifically because you traded yourself for them, rather than being picked more or less at random.

I think I take your point...but the randomness of the pick would not make me feel better if others were hurt when I could have borne that burden.

I totally wear my regular socks as tabi socks with my zori. I suppose it's not good for them, but it's only mildly uncomfortable. I do have real tabi socks, but they're the ones I wore for my wedding, so they're kinda fancy and also not that warm. I love tabi socks.

bonny, why should you bear their burden? If you're the Captain of the ship, then yeah, okay, but if you're just another person the same as all of them, why should you be hurt instead of them?

I'm not saying, stand by and do nothing while others are hurt. I'm saying, why would you feel *obligated* to offer yourself in the place of another person to whom you owed nothing? (Not family, not friends, not even subordinates, just people.) To the point of not being able to live with yourself if you didn't? To do it would be brave and noble, but to feel like you HAVE to or OUGHT to, that's an unnecessary burden to place on yourself.

> I'd wear the tabi with the zori.

Ok, I had to look up stuff to understand this. things do not belong between my toes.

I would volunteer (in theory) to be hostage but I am quite confident my employees would not let me. Here's hoping we don't find out.

Verra cute Jammie's, ita.

( and that tried to be Verrazano and ITA )

Eta: and I didn't type Jammie's either!!!

mac and I started getting last year getting new Christmas jammies. WOuld have gotten the ones for this year yesterday, but he flipped out, so maybe I'll do it tomorrow.

To the point of not being able to live with yourself if you didn't? To do it would be brave and noble, but to feel like you HAVE to or OUGHT to, that's an unnecessary burden to place on yourself.

I'm not looking at it from a sense of owing others...that's what I mean about it not being brave. I couldn't live with _myself_.

Now that I'm thinking about it, it's hard to explain.

There is a sense of nobility I suppose...If not me, then who?

It is also about an odd sense that all of my life is borrowed anyway. I really ought not be alive, statistically speaking, and I do not fear death at all.

I fear pain, of course. I'd rather avoid that portion of the program, to be sure. But asking others to take pain instead of me...I just don't think I could do it.

Note: if I ever get tortured for info I clearly don't possess, all my captors would need to do is threaten someone else and I'd cave like a caving thing.