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But if you are that soldier and you develop reasonable doubt that whatever is said to be a simulation is in fact reality, what do you do?
by gmueckl 8y ago
But if you are that soldier and you develop reasonable doubt that whatever is said to be a simulation is in fact reality, what do you do?
- close04 8y agoAs a civilian I am certain my reactions, instincts, and decisions are vastly different from those of a soldier. I am not trained to follow orders and take lives regardless of my opinions. I am allowed to have doubts and act on those doubts as I see fit without fear of a court marshal. At this time in real life any soldier should have reasonable doubt about whether their next target is an enemy combatant or a civilian based on an almost endless record of mistakes and mishaps. But questioning the order or entertaining that sense of doubt could be the difference between surviving and getting your whole squad killed. Now take that soldier and put them in a simulation and you raised the bar 1000 fold on whether they should worry about real life consequences. They're trained not to worry when they know it's real, let alone when it might not be real at all. The thing with soldiers is that the whole military culture instills a sense of following orders, the "reasonable doubt" bar is set a lot higher before you can expect them to oppose or even entertain that doubt and investigate.
- gmueckl 8y agoI was a conscript in the German army and there the emphasis is definitely not put on creating soldiers that follow orders mindlessly. The way the German army is organized allows (and to some extent demands) that soldiers get a degree of freedom about how to arrived at their set goals (in contrast to micromanagement by commanding officers). Attached to that is a responsibility for every soldier to recognize unlawful orders and disobey them.