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I don't disagree that there would be attempts to force them. Hopefully, the individual scientists would be able to maintain their ground and refuse to be part o
by poo-yie 5y ago
I don't disagree that there would be attempts to force them. Hopefully, the individual scientists would be able to maintain their ground and refuse to be part of it. There are many tragic examples in the history books of 'just following orders'.
- rscho 5y ago"Just following orders" is the prototypical judgment of past events through the lens of current culture. Refusing to just follow orders meant torture and death for you and your kin under many regimes and in many historical episodes.
- poo-yie 5y agoOf course you're right. My frame of reference is for a civilized society in current times, where the individual is not subject to torture or death.