Standing up for good

Well, I just watched one of my favorite movies, Training Day. The movie is about a guy named Jake played by Ethan Hawk who wants to work on the LAPD Narcotics Unit. He is trained by a charasmatic and rather convincing personality named Alonzo played by one of the best actors out there, Denzel Washington. The whole movie takes place over a period of just one day, and as the day goes on it is obvious that Alonzo does not abide by the rules and is just plain corrupt. Jake speaks up for what he knows is right but each time Alonzo comes back with a convincing agrument as to why a little corruption here and there is neccessary in the world of a narcotics officer.
I was able to learn many lessons from this movie. What I most learned was that it is important to stick up for what you know is right. There was a time on my LDS mission where I had a leader over me whom everybody that was just the coolest. This guy was extremely chrasmatic and I even remember wishing that I was somebody like him. As time went on I saw him do many things that a LDS missionary should not do, but because of way his presented himself I thought that his behavior was accpetable. Besides at the same time even if I did seem him do something that I never had the guts to stand up to him, I mean this guy was just to cool. Later on this missionary left and our mission president get it in all of our minds that this missionaries behavior was not acceptable. When I heard my mission president say this it made so much sense and I felt crazy for ever thinking that what this guy was doing was ok. But because of this missionaries charasmatic and convicing behavior I cut him a lot of slack even though I knew deep down inside that he was not behaving appropiately.
This is why I admire Jake in this movie because even though Alonzo tries to convince him that a litte corruption here and there is not so bad he has the guts to stand up for what he belives in.