Friends are a luxury a Stormtrooper can't afford. If it's a choice between completing an objective and leaving a squadmate behind, the Stormtroopers are conditioned to leave their own to die.

It was why it was so important to Finn not to let that happen to Rey. They could indoctrinate him all they wanted, but he still knew the difference between what was the right thing to do and what was the easy thing to do.

He barely catches Poe's flash of...something. Maybe surprise? It's still hard for him to read expressions, between all the helmets and the persistently linefaced expressions of most officers. Probably surprise.

"Oh yeah? Bunch of thrillseekers always trying to one-up each other, huh?" Or some other kind of bad reputation?