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[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo]
> "Blind obedience to a non-blind obedience stance"? This doesn't even make 
> rhetorical sense. What I've said, if anything like this, is that "blind 
> obedience to static social patterns" always leads to degenerate behavior 
> ("killing in the name of..."). And, although you are correct, the military 
> functions through demanding blind obedience to orders, there are times when 
> Good men must decline orders. In other words, there are times, even in war, 
> when disobedience to orders is crucial to morality. Your way of thinking, 
> "There are times, especially in war, when blind obedience to orders is 
> crucial to success" could have been the motto for the Third Reich.

Also the motto for the victorious Allied armed forces. Or don't you make a
moral distinction between the Allies and the Third Reich?


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