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Well, they have an ethical duty not to follow those orders. Since Nuremberg, at least, “just following orders” has not been considered an acceptable defense for
by iron0013 6y ago
Well, they have an ethical duty not to follow those orders. Since Nuremberg, at least, “just following orders” has not been considered an acceptable defense for having committed atrocities.
- loopz 6y agoThey will be fired and cancelled though. https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/05borderlands.html https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/05borderlands.html
- bendbro 6y ago> atrocities Soft times we live in when less than lethal riot control methods are considered on par with militarily executed genocides.
- missosoup 6y agoI'm not sure it's valid to equate Nazi genocide with riot crowd control. It's important to unpack this issue and disconnect the loaded politics from the reality on the ground. E.g. if exactly the same events were taking place but the crowd in question was far-right neonazies, would that change your opinion of what's going on? If so, then you need to unpack it and remove the political bias from your analysis. I think any rational person can agree that a mob trying to burn down a courthouse is not okay in a civilised society, regardless of what mob wants to do it.