Integrity is a significant factor in regard to philosophical ethics, but in Stoicism one needs to embrace disinterest in order to truly grasp integrity. Feelings are fickle emotions for Stoic philosophers like Epictetus. “ I am thinking of the tragedy that can befall a person who has such a need for love or attention that he will sell his soul for it. Right out of Aristotle’s book a good man with a flaw who had come to an unjustified bad end. The need to ingratiate himself, the need for love, and adulation at any price”(11). As POW’s are constantly being brutalized and tortured by the Vietnamese for information the need to tell every single secret begins to grow. Opportunist would defiantly relinquish their integrity to their captures in
