Doesn't seem 'disloyal' or stupid either - much like many fiction dystopias in which everything IS Catch 22: thus you adapt to survive.
What is gained if you stick to a credo (not all that different from your current opponents' POV, at base) -- get selves massacred to.. er prove a Pointless-Point? That aint Heroism - but Ego-ritual suicide! (of course if you believe you get Brownie Points with a local God, well..)
Anyway - assuming it was reported relatively unmolested - it's good for a
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