[MineralMan]

"Good for you, I guess. Perhaps the military is not the authoritarian organization I thought it was?

The orders you disobeyed had nothing to do with the enemy. Would your superiors have been so forgiving if you had disobeyed an order involving the enemy in a time of war? "

I have no idea. I do know that I would have refused any illegal order...even moreso if it involved prisoners of war and some activity that went against the Geneva Convention.

Would I get punished? Dunno, but that's not the point. I obey the law. I obey my own moral code as well. Refusing illegal orders is the duty of all US service personnel. That's what they taught us in basic training.

My morality is not subvertable by others; only to myself.

[A. Pole]

Would I get punished? Dunno, but that's not the point. I obey the law. I obey my own moral code as well.

Gee, you are one of the few "godless atheists" who managed to fashion and follow their own moral code. But not many people can do that.

"the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me"