Worse, you find out your local butcher, who is one of the most popular guys in town and is one of your best friends and is also the town's minister - instead of buying pork he's been feeding everyone sausages made out of rats. For decades... until some crazy hobo that everyone hates started yelling "it's made of rats!" and burned the butcher shop down. You know nobody else around you is going to like hearing the news either. You have two options.
String your good friend up in the streets.
Just pretend the whole thing never happened.
Thanks to tribal politics and imaginary sunk cost, #1 is impossible for most people.
Worse, you find out your local butcher, who is one of the most popular guys in town and is one of your best friends and is also the town's minister - instead of buying pork he's been feeding everyone sausages made out of rats. For decades... until some crazy hobo that everyone hates started yelling "it's made of rats!" and burned the butcher shop down. You know nobody else around you is going to like hearing the news either. You have two options.
String your good friend up in the streets.
Just pretend the whole thing never happened.
Thanks to tribal politics and imaginary sunk cost, #1 is impossible for most people.
Yeah, they choose 2 and invest in weirdness bonds.
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