"You can't handle the truth"

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Jack Nicholson is a good actor. In the movie “A Few Good Men”, he played Colonel Nathan Jessup, the commanding officer of a Marine detachment at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Tom Cruise plays LTJG Daniel Kaffee, an inexperienced U.S. Navy lawyer who leads the defense in the court-martial of two Marines.

In my favorite courtroom scene, an agitated Col. Jessup yells at LTJG Kaffee, “You can’t handle the truth!”

I find that to be the case a lot. We can’t handle the truth—the truth about things that we’ve done, the truth about our biases, the truth about ourselves. When confronted with the facts, we can’t handle the truth--much less speak out in defense of it.
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