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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. Apparently you make
no moral distinction between the Allies and the Third Reich. 



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