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They are legally obligated to disobey illegal orders.

• thunky 10mo ago
  How are they supposed to know what's legal? Congress can't even agree if murdering civilians on boats is legal or not.
  • fragmede 10mo ago
    If only there was some basic training for this kind of stuff!
    • thunky 10mo ago
      Yes hopefully Congress gets the basic training they desperately need. But seriously. Should soldiers be refusing to murder civilians on boats? If the law is clear (which I think it is) and they should be refusing why aren't they? The answer of course is that they're being put in an impossible situation. Pinning the responsibility on them, because they took basic training, to interpret the law and go against the majority of the US govt at huge personal risk is just absurd. Maybe instead the government should get their head out of their ass and do something themselves beyond trying to pass the buck via a stupid tv ad.