Take your soldier example and add in children also in the home. LT orders solder to toss a grenade through the window and soldier says no. Or he does it and someone narcs on him in the after action of what they saw.
They teach an ethics course at Annapolis. A pilot is given orders to bomb an enemy convoy. As he makes his bomb run, the vehilces stop and all occupants exit and raise their hands and a white flag. Does the pilot folllow orders or wave off? Say he waves off, now anytime an aircraft approaches, the enemy does the same thing. Only to wait for the plane to run out of fuel, then continue fighting. This was on Nat Geo, a show about the naval academy.
Remember the orders given to german solders in 1936. That almost all obeyed. The courts even ruled that the law was changed and jews were bad. Politicians changed the law and judges upheld the unjust laws.
So cops shouldnt follow orders blindly. The sheriffs in many states said they wont enforce red flags and theyre all still employed.
What shall we do to prevent a mental person from shooting somewhere up? Remove gun free zones and have HPD issue ccw/oc permits. Problem greatly reduced.
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This was an interesting back and forth.
One issue is that Police are not soldiers in a war zone.
We don't pay Cops to destroy "stuff" and peoples lives.
We pay them to enforce laws and hopefully, sometimes
assist those in need of help.
We pay soldiers to break things. In my military ethics training,
I was taught to use my best judgement when given an
order to do something out of the ordinary, such as lining
up women and children and shooting them when they were
unarmed.
On the Annapolis ethics anecdote you shared, I would have
destroyed the vehicles, but not strafed the personnel.