Cite?
People are not guns. What say you about those men and women who disobeyed orders and saved lives?
Finally someone understands what I’ve been trying to say here.
That they were not good soldiers and they were a liability to any unit to which they were attached.
Here. Pretty damn easy to find. “white men could rape female slaves without fear of punishment… Free (or white) women could charge their perpetrators with rape, but slave women had no legal recourse; their bodies legally belonged to their owners”.
Extra-special triple lameness points for using this gambit a half-dozen posts after the cite was given to you.
Oh, and PTtKUWtC.
You have a terrible understanding of what makes a good soldier. I hope you never serve in the military.
Further, many times they weren’t soldiers, but civil administrators, police officers, diplomats, and the like.
I stand corrected then.
I think we’ve understood all along. What you’ve been trying to say here is very vile, and excuses many of the most evil acts in human history.
A good soldier follows orders.
So, what you’re saying is that to execute someone for following evil orders would be an atrocity?
Well, tough shit – the executioner was ordered to do it; that makes it A-OK!
Evil is a social fiction created by those who feel a need to establish a greater justification for their own moral stance.
According to Smapti, the only person who bears any moral responsibility for the Holocaust is Adolf Hitler. All of his underlings were only following orders.
According to Smapti, Himmler was a “good soldier”.
I’m saying there is no such thing as an “evil order” because there is no such thing as “evil”.
Yes. It does.
A good soldier disobeys unlawful orders. A good soldier exercises the judgment of a good human being.
What’s your stance on gravity?
Ultimately, yes - a person in authority is ultimately responsible for all acts committed by those acting under their orders.
That depends on the degree to which Himmler was executing Hitler’s orders as opposed to executing his own personal agenda. I am not well-read enough about Himmler’s career to render a judgment on that question.
It is not the role of soldiers to determine the lawfulness of orders. Soldiers are not judges - judges are judges.
OK, then, “I was just following orders” is NOT a defense; we’ll damn well string you up anyway.
Your sputterings aren’t even consistent with themselves, much less with reality.
Gravity is.