As a practicing attorney, Field had some clients who led him into dubious actions.
It's a surprisingly fruitful metaphor, largely unexplored in the medium, for what it feels like to be a video game player who is joyfully complicit in a series of morally dubious actions.
But Human Rights Watch, based in New York, has created a separate page on its Web site (www.hrw.org) called "Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy," where it lists dubious actions taken by governments in the name of fighting terrorism.
These arguments are a sweet substitute for the thankless task of formulating honest answers to the questions raised by ISIS, which would inevitably mean advocating morally dubious actions with no certainty of a good outcome, as well as having to repudiate many of one's earlier views.
Jarecki and Gibney devote some time to Kissinger's farcical career as a "swinger," but they gloss over his achievements in playing off the Soviet Union and China against each other and thereby hastening the American victory in the Cold War — the cause for which, after all, Kissinger's more dubious actions were taken.
Attackers leverage preexisting trust between victims and the chosen false identities to spur dubious actions (illegally transferring money, remailing stolen goods, installing malware on computers, and recommending fraudulent services to friends).
During the eleven years of personal rule that followed, Charles performed legally dubious actions, such as raising taxes without parliament's approval.
For example, should they report the dubious actions of others towards patients and themselves and risk the consequences?
Ironically, it is Bob, a streetwise "fixer" with dubious values, who galvanises the refugees into action.
