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Quoting Ben Golden <theplaidninja at hotmail.com>:

> Hence the question shifts to the morality of the orders rather than the 
> morality of following them.  Platt if I might ask you to weigh in on whether 
> you consider some historical military orders were moral.  I ask about these 
> examples--all of which are sore spots in American history--not because I 
> hate America, but because I think they're difficult/interesting to assess. I 
> would assume that if you consider the orders immoral, you would not follow 
> them and would consider those who did to be immoral:
> 
> 1)  American orders to kill native Americans/conquer America
> 2)  British orders to burn the White House in the war of 1812
> 3)  American orders to fight the Vietnam war
> 4)  American orders to fight the War of Independence
> 5)  British orders to oppose America in the War of Independence
> 6)  American/British/French orders to fight in World War 1
> 7)  German/Italian/Austrian orders to fight in World War 1

Hi Ben: These orders are not orders given in battle but rather orders to 
begin battle by government leaders. Thus you raise the issue of what is and
isn't moral for governments to do. In general, my position is that a government
that protects and defends the individual-intellectual rights of the governed
as expressed in the U.S. Constitution is more moral than a government or group
that doesn't. Applying that postion to your list above: 1)moral if attacked or
threatened 2)immoral 3)moral 4)moral 5)immoral 6)moral 7)immoral.

Platt
 

Platt


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