The U.S. Army has something like that in it's by-laws. A solder must refuse an illegal order from a superior (killing innocents, anything that would break the Geneva Convention, etc).
However, they have to deal with that after months of intense training to "do as you're told".
It doesn't work 100% well, but it does work in general. However, in practise... sometimes they follow the order, and are held just as responsible then.
Watch A Few Good Men for how that sort of thing works out after the fact.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2004-08-14 03:07 am (UTC)However, they have to deal with that after months of intense training to "do as you're told".
It doesn't work 100% well, but it does work in general. However, in practise... sometimes they follow the order, and are held just as responsible then.
Watch A Few Good Men for how that sort of thing works out after the fact.