1. I apparently desperatly need the money but I will not give any external indication to the individual of having accepted the money. 2. I ask to exchange my patrol course with another guard or simply having another one , I do not act like anything happened and if I am asked why I did the change my patrol schedule, I answer depending on the results I had with my inquiries, the questions asked and who asked : - I want to check up on a friend - I need to retrieve something - I lost a bet - I have a bad feeling - Someone said that something will happen at old/new location of patrol 3. If I managed to change my circuit I will patrol according to the new one , if I didn't I will either change it without reporting to my superiors or fake a bad condition (disease/injury). I will keep my senses alert and listen to any news. 4. The following day I wait for the report of the other guard or the people living in the city, I will check under the bridge only if: - nothing happened - a rival organisation or gang has been annihilated (if the rivals are in a different condition or if the families and/or innocents were attacked too I would not) I would not if : - a minor to medium crime was effectued at the place (if it doesn't seem to relate to the organisation I would report it to my superiors and hint at people "overstepping" their boundaries) -A big crime or distraction anywhere in the city
I wouldn't need to be bribed as I most likely would already on their paylist. There's no better security than guards and local thiefs guild/underground working out a deal that would benefit both sides. If that's no option, I'd take enough to make it worthwhile but not as much that it gets suspicious.
Just out of curiosity... If you were living in a society where there is always a shortage of supplies for a year or so, once every ten years, and because of the fact that everyone should know its a bad time to have children, it have been decreed illegal to have children be born during the year of scarcity, and the law carries the penalty of death for the offending child as well as their parents... If you, after having grown up and becoming old enough to understand the law, realize that you are in fact an illegal child... Would you be a law abiding citizen and bring your parents crime and your own illegal existence to the attention of the lawful authorities, and face the lawful penalty it carries... ie. death? Or would you ignore the law since... its not to your benefit?
Short answer, yes. Long answer, you'd be stupid not to accept a bribe of 1 million kg of gold. That's more gold than United Kingdom has. If you have 1 million kg of gold, you can already buy Japan. Even the emperor of Japan doesn't have 100kg of gold. At 1000 kg of gold, you're richer than most African countries, and you can probably even buy a significant part of Venezuela. And all you need to do is not show up for patrol in a medieval world. Even if you're blamed, your superiors can't do anything if you say you were patrolling elsewhere or you stubbed your toes somewhere and had to bandage it. Easy money.
1. The least I would take is 2 grams. 2. No, the system is already so corrupt they are sure to already know. 3. Yes, but I would have ask for an increase on the minimum of the bribe. 4. One in which I am sure someone will suffer whether I know them or not. 5. No
So I do roughly agree with MLK jr.'s philosophy that if you disagree with a law, peacefully violate it for demonstrative purposes. Law's are quite arbitrary in nature, and they can change with each society. With enough political power/influence, you can create a change in law. Consequently, it's important to focus less on the law itself and consider what is inherently right/wrong. For nonsensical laws (like the one you mentioned), publicly rejecting it damages the credibility of the ruling authority immensely. Regardless of the final outcome (penalty), it damages the ruling authority in terms of public opinion, and the legitimacy of the ruling authority is reduced. This can be a threatening situation for the ruling authority, consequently every ruling power struggles immensely to maintain their popular opinion... understanding that it only takes a single incident to crash approval and trigger protests/revolution.