she wants to join the “Literati”. The members are wearing masks and the new recruits are apparently taking turns to bury each other alive for 15 minutes. Some/all of the people in the coffins and pleading to be released and Erica and someone else stop listening to the Literati who are saying to trust them. When they open up the coffins the people inside just laugh because it was just an act. Then the Literati let the people who disobeyed them join and the others have to leave.
Are there any real organisations (including secret ones) that require the new recruits to disobey them (seemingly risking rejection) in order to join?
Or organisations that increase your rank if you disobey certain orders?
BTW I watched a Christian movie somewhat recently and there was an unemployed foreign guy and in the factory where he worked the boss asked him if he could do some shady things… the guy refused and the boss gave him a promotion.
The U.S. Marine Corps (and probably the other services too) is known for performing “integrity checks” on recruits and others new to an organization. Relevant quote at the link:
In his memoir of his Marine Corps and Desert Storm service, Spare Parts, Buzz Williams mentions an integrity check his first Reserve unit performed on him when he arrived at his first company formation:
I remember hearing a legend about a test that was supposedly given to some enlisted soldiers. The soldiers were ordered to climb up a ladder in darkness. At the top of the ladder, the soldier was ordered to let go and fall. The soldier couldn’t see it (because it was so dark), but there was a net right below the soldier to catch them. The soldiers that obeyed blindly were caught by the net unharmed and were told thanks and returned to their regular duties. The soldiers that hesitated at the top and appeared to be considering their options were considered candidates for being made officers because they demonstrated independent judgment.
Near the end of the Babylon 5 series, G’Kar asks the telepath Leeta to do surreptitious monitoring as part of an agreement highly beneficial to them both. She refuses, based on the ethics of being a telepath, even though to say no is a crushing setback for her group. It turns out to be the right response: had she agreed, G’Kar would know she was not to be trusted.
In practice, they’d be pushed out if they halted charges in certain cases even when they knew the charge will never hold up in court.
That is, they disobey what is on paper. They are told ,only by word of mouth, when to prosecute as a form of punishment .