[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[ian glendinning]

I agree with you Arlo, in fact on re-reading, you made the significant
point already.

"Obedient to a degree" ... sounds like a bit of middle-ground.
Standby for a tirade from DMB :-)

Blind is never good.
The "examined life" someone once said.

Ian

On 9/20/06, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> [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?
>
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