[panzerfan]

Anyone that is prepared to challenge the established rules within a military exercise should expect to receive what amounts to the penalties from insubordination... if anything, Tia had it easy.

What Tia did earlier can amount to lobbying, or "to make the critical question of 'why' become ambiguous and to substitute in emotion to the void." Unfortunately... to paraphrase even more, "if a soldier's intuition is totally correct, where would be no loser. If a policeman's intuition is flawless, there would be no wrongly accused. However what does reality indicate?" The gamble failed for Tia.

The more serious misgiving on Tia's part is to fall back to belief. "Belief is really just an excuse to dress up and legitimize one's past wrongs or foolish behaviors. The thicker the makeup, the harder it is to see through the facade beneath. " It is a rather dangerous path that should be checked early on.