What if you worked for a huge company which for decades had been cheating and stealing from millions of citizens? And what if you know this to be the case and felt bad about it?
And what if your section of the company possessed various records or other information which gave proof of some of the company's terrible misdeeds? And what if you had access to, or some responsibility for, storing or keeping track of such information?
And what if suddenly it was announced that the company would undergo a major management change, with the new bosses declaring their intention to do everything possible to fight corruption, including investigate past and present practices in every division?
And what if you realized that your boss might soon want you and/or others in your section to destroy incriminating evidence?
And what if you were somehow able to move or copy some or all of that evidence before being asked to destroy it, so that when the time came, you could dutifully follow an order to get rid of everything and yet preserve key information for future reference by interested authorities who would probably be quite thankful for and forgiving of your unauthorized movement to reproduction of company information?
What would you do, if by taking such personal initiative you could help right past wrongs, prevent future crimes, punish major wrongdoers and set the company and the whole nation on a straighter course toward progress, prosperity and justice for all?
What would you do?
Paul Rometheus
Taipei.
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