You are an officer in an army who as just been ordered to do a terrible thing. You are ordered to first rape and then murder a prisoner, whom you know to be an innicent civilian from the wrong ethnic background. There is no doubt in your mind that this would be a gross injustice - a war crime, in fact.
Yet quickly thinking it over you feel you have no choice but to go ahead. If you obey the order, you can make the ordeal as bearable as possible for the victim, making sure she sufferes no more that necessary. If you don't obey the order, you will be shot and the prisoner will still be violated and killed, but probably more violently, It is better for everone if you do it.
How can it be that you are both going to do the best you can in the circumstances and also a terrible wrong?
2006-10-05 16:53:17 · 8 answers · asked by haiku_katie 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
first shoot the person that gave the order then grab girl and run like hell if we are both going to die might as well try right
2006-10-05 17:01:54 · answer #1 · answered by k dog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask all other colleagues what if this prisoner was their father or mother. if this not make anything special in their minds I think I wouldn't obey the order and die. God is with us and see everything we made!
2006-10-06 01:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by pictoru 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the UCMJ, a soldier is required to disobey any order he feels is illegal, immoral or criminal. An illegal order is defined as one contrary to general orders, regulations or exempting orders from a more superior officer.
2006-10-06 01:03:01 · answer #3 · answered by Sophist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1]no army can order for a rape!
2]best fiction story!
2006-10-06 00:03:57 · answer #4 · answered by nice guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For wrong/evil to exist in actuality or theory, it must encompass some truth. For instance,
During the 'Nam war, a Christian was dumped into the POW sewage hold and told to empty it. The pit was so deep the effluent rose to his chin. He was gagging. A guard assigned to keep him there or kill him, taught him to bellly breathe.
Evil, as evil, cannot be complete, therefore must be inclusive of some good.
2006-10-05 23:58:47 · answer #5 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I would never be ordered to do this because of the Geneva Convention.
2006-10-05 23:58:38 · answer #6 · answered by BigWurster 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't do it, I'd rather face court martial
2006-10-05 23:55:06 · answer #7 · answered by delta s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please, go write some haiku.
And yes, torture is wrong.
2006-10-06 00:23:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋