I've always thought that the crying shame about Foley's traitorhood - apart from the obvious - is that his no doubt thoroughgoing and accurate officer's assessment of Peter qua Dartmouth cadet presumably got discounted.
Peter should not be in the Navy. He is a shocking judge of people (look at the fact that the family look in awed respect at Selby because he's not psychopathic even while being a Friend of Peter); he panics in a crisis; he's something of a bully (Nicola in the kitchen); he lies to people in charge of a mission about whether he's up to what's required (Falconer's Lure) he makes daring plans with no contingency even considered for failure (Run Away Home) and he lacks essential skills for the job (I've got no head for heights which is why I'm not a high-level window-cleaner. Savvy?).
None of this has anything to do with whether he's a reasonable human being; but he's undoubtedly being trained for the wrong role in life, which wouldn't be so bad if it was only himself that was going to be screwed up by that, but if he ever graduates from Dartmouth he's going to get a lot of people killed.
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Peter should not be in the Navy. He is a shocking judge of people (look at the fact that the family look in awed respect at Selby because he's not psychopathic even while being a Friend of Peter); he panics in a crisis; he's something of a bully (Nicola in the kitchen); he lies to people in charge of a mission about whether he's up to what's required (Falconer's Lure) he makes daring plans with no contingency even considered for failure (Run Away Home) and he lacks essential skills for the job (I've got no head for heights which is why I'm not a high-level window-cleaner. Savvy?).
None of this has anything to do with whether he's a reasonable human being; but he's undoubtedly being trained for the wrong role in life, which wouldn't be so bad if it was only himself that was going to be screwed up by that, but if he ever graduates from Dartmouth he's going to get a lot of people killed.