[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
Again, no moral distinction between the Allies and the Japanese Imperial Armed
Forces or the Allies and the Nazis.

[Arlo]
25 points for the rhetorical shift in only a few posts! Kudos! You've gone from
anything I said to yet another sad diatribe against "them evil lefties". If you
call me a "Marxist" sometime in the next three posts, I'll award you an
additional 10 points!

Here is the question. Should the members of the Armed Services be "blindly
obedient"? Or should there be times when we expect someone to decline/disobey
when they are ordered to do something that find morally repugnant?

I've already said that the Armed Forces demands a greater amount of obedience to
authority than civilian life. But are we talking "a greater amount", or total
and unquestioning deference in any and all situations?

Is there anything Soldier Platt could be ordered to do, that he would say "no"
to? If not, how does that make him any better than Soldat Hermann would did
whatever the Reich ordered HIM to do?