No: the answer you like the most is the one you should trust the least. Go over the evidence one more time: be sure you haven’t missed something. - Charles E. Gannon

If the motivation was simple greed, then that was a promising target for development as an agent inside the enemy’s camp. Greed was not only a predictable impulse, but was an indicator of the dependability of the individual being suborned. It was overwhelmingly associated with profoundly self-centered egos and values.

They still grumbled, of course, but never within his earshot. Besides, grumbling was the true anthem of every military unit that had ever existed. And their current grumbling was simply aimless grousing about the food, the cramped quarters, and anything else that struck them as modestly annoying. It was, in summary, both a harmless and timeless bonding ritual.

You mean, control my instincts?"
"No, most of your species can learn to do that. The true challenge is whether you can control your predisposition to assume moral equivalencies where none exist.