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Originally Posted by Ilow
I don't see where morality has anything to do with this. It sort of seems that requesting adequate equipment to perform a job, and questioning whether they should be doing the job at all based on moral quandries are two different things.
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The information I read stated the soldiers felt their orders were wrong, and subsequently refused to abide by them, based on the fact that they didn't have enough/proper equipment.
Didn't they feel their orders were "wrong"? They refused their orders, and felt justified doing so, due to the immorality of requiring someone to go into battle unprepared or ill-equiped.
How would you evaluate that situation if not through a lense of moral evaluation?
Of course, your statement went beyond issues of 'morality' (I take this to be decisions between right and wrong, I don't know what you take it to mean), anyway.
You claimed that soldiers relinquish autonomous decision making and do not debate the merits of their actions. I'm pointing to the examples I know of where soldiers did engage in discussion and thought regarding their actions. Moreso, they refused to follow orders and so far haven't been punished. Interestingly, however, all these factors are in play when their own safety is at stake rather than what they might inflict on thousands of civilians.