from ekho
Why I like undercover work
- Investigations allow me to stretch my personality to unfamiliar territories, to find myself doing things my character will never "allow" me to do
- Doing this work made me look inside and find out things I didn't know. When you are someone else, even just a bit, you can look at yourself from the side
- Still, during undercover employment work I kept some parts of who I really am. I like Dire Straits, and I can also like them undercover. But what I definitely could not do was be an animal rights activist, someone who devotes his life to animals. No one like that would ever work in these places. So going undercover meant entering into a persona that stripped away the most fundamental part of who I am: an activist trying to reduce suffering. This fact forced me to look at who I was in absence of this identity.
- Undercover work mandates lying. What is under cover? the reality, that you are a journalist, or an activist, that you are secretly filming. But it is a very moral lie. Everybody wants to lie, to trick, to fool people, just a little bit. In this case, you are doing it for a very good cause, so you have the ethical green light.
- Don't look at me like that. Humans love to do bad stuff. Why do you think we are killing all these people in computer games?