Friday, August 27, 2021

Discretion

The inspiration for this post came from this YouTube video. At about the 11:00 minute mark, Navy SEAL Jason Pike discusses the Hollywood moment of the Michael Murphy character announcing their next move to the possible enemy sympathizers. Of course, discretion would dictate that you would never do anything like this. 

A lack of discretion used to be a character flaw in our society. These days, it is far more common to lack discretion than it used to be. As an example, this blog post, written here at this blog two years ago, about an event from 2005 in which an employee who was over the age of 40 at the time demonstrated a complete lack of discretion. 

Some things are better left unsaid. Whether I am carrying a firearm. The constitution and consistency of one's last defecation. What another person does well and not so well in bed. The list goes on. 

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