Oh, I'm sure. All I'm saying is, the carrot must be massive. And with death for disobedience off the table, I really wonder how creative they've gotten with the stick, too...
That said, though, even with all the incentives and disincentives they can muster, I still don't know how Team Rocket can trust so readily that no one's going to betray them. I mean, when you're running any kind of organization where information warfare can be impactful, isn't it important to have unbreakable trust in higher command and careful security measures among the ground troops? And that's with groups where everyone joins by choice. Forcing people into your service who may not feel any good will towards your group or cause, and who especially may not feel those things when you're not giving them any choice in being in your service or being privy to some of your secrets...well, let's just say it doesn't exactly seem like best practices for a shadowy crime syndicate. In fact, it seems just a touch nuts?
Maybe we should find that relieving, though. If no one from within Team Rocket's felt compelled to come forward to stop them, then maybe no one they've recruited has found the moral conflict so polarizing that they felt like they had to take action. Certainly Team Rocket seems like more of a high-key nuisance than the kind of threat I've had to deal with back in my own world - the kind of threat people would put their lives on the line to stop. Even the good people shanghaied into Rocket service must never have felt their moral codes pushed that far, or it would've happened by now.
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Date: 2020-12-29 11:36 am (UTC)That said, though, even with all the incentives and disincentives they can muster, I still don't know how Team Rocket can trust so readily that no one's going to betray them. I mean, when you're running any kind of organization where information warfare can be impactful, isn't it important to have unbreakable trust in higher command and careful security measures among the ground troops? And that's with groups where everyone joins by choice. Forcing people into your service who may not feel any good will towards your group or cause, and who especially may not feel those things when you're not giving them any choice in being in your service or being privy to some of your secrets...well, let's just say it doesn't exactly seem like best practices for a shadowy crime syndicate. In fact, it seems just a touch nuts?
Maybe we should find that relieving, though. If no one from within Team Rocket's felt compelled to come forward to stop them, then maybe no one they've recruited has found the moral conflict so polarizing that they felt like they had to take action. Certainly Team Rocket seems like more of a high-key nuisance than the kind of threat I've had to deal with back in my own world - the kind of threat people would put their lives on the line to stop. Even the good people shanghaied into Rocket service must never have felt their moral codes pushed that far, or it would've happened by now.