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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
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Subject: Re: Morton-Thiokol Engineering Claims
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> Nuremberg and later such courts established very clearly that it *is*
> the soldiers' obligation to weigh the *legality* of their orders.

My feeble memory suggests that the soldiers' orders were "legal".  Not
moral, but still in full accordance with the laws of their land.

This is something that I've found interesting, since "pop" psychology
suggests that the majority of adults have "fifth-level" ethics, and so
differentiate right vs. wrong by reference to "the law".  The war crimes
trials punished people for not having at least "sixth-level" ethics in
which right vs. wrong is arbitrated by a self-determined sense of what
is in the best interest of society as a whole.
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Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {elrond,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug