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From: snell@utzoo.UUCP (Richard Snell)
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Subject: Napoleonic battle ethics; or, `When to Fink on an Errant Boss...' 
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 15:26:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 15:26:50 1986
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henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes <6512@utzoo.UUCP>

>And as for soldiers' obligation to weigh the soundness of the campaign,
>Nuremberg and later such courts established very clearly that it *is*
>the soldiers' obligation to weigh the *legality* of their orders.
>-- 
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

If events such as the `Judgement at Nuremberg' established anything, it
is that regardless of the *legality* of orders from a superior
one is obliged to consider and accept responsibility for the *morality* 
of ones actions.  The impied corollary is the following bottom line:
ya gotta do the right thing, cause the moral `buck' stops with you.

-- 
Name:   Richard Snell
Mail:   Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
UUCP:   {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!snell