[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Ian]
Platt's point is valid though.

[Arlo]
To a degree, yes. The bigger question though needs to be asked. "When" is 
it appropriate to be "blindly obedient" (to a social pattern) and when it 
is not? Even though I suspect our service men and women are, largely, 
unquestioningly loyal, do you want an armed force that if, IF, a malevolent 
general ordered a civilian population exterminated would carry through?

What we are arguing then, is that there are times when one (in the 
military) must be obedient, and times when one must refuse orders. This is 
hardly what I'd call "blindly obedient". It is the "blindly obedient" who 
would exterminate a civilian population "because they were ordered to". 
Otherwise, one is not "blindly obedient", rather "obedient to a degree". No?