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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
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Subject: Re: Morton-Thiokol Engineering Claims
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 09:51:55 EST
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In article <6512@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> ... In this case, however, it was the commanders-in-chief
>> who undertook to carry out a plan which they did not consider effective. The
>> engineers were not commanders - they were soldiers...
>
>Note that the quote makes it clear that the "commander-in-chief" that
>Napoleon is referring to has at least two levels of superiors above him
>who might be actively (if unwisely) involved in the decision.  I think
>the analogy holds.
>
>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

	Are you suggesting that the engineers' actions were in some way
	illegal?


-- 
					--MKR

"The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The 
 terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency."
						- Albert Einstein