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Originally Posted by Bullitt
So I'm supposed to feel sorry for them? Fuck that.
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Originally Posted by Bullitt
I have a degree of sympathy for them
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Ok, I'm confused.
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
There is a use for people who are incapable of thinking for themselves:
Suicide missions and cannon fodder.
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
"I was only following orders" isn't that the Nuremburg defense?
Maybe not more stupid, maybe more stupid. I was talking about the ability to think for yourself and within that concept is encompassed "despite what your superiors may have told you."
And I stand by my original assertion, we need people like that, people who follow orders without question. "Run into that cave and flush out the enemy? Fuck you, sarge." <---not that kind of attitude.
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I doubt that these people are "incapable of thinking for themselves". I'll bet that they want to keep their jobs, and keep flying safe. If they were to quit in righteous indignity, there'd be ten applicants for every abandoned position.