Originally Posted by
bugged on the right
You took it wrong. Orders to carry out meaningless tasks can be completely legal. The legality is irrelevant. Didn't you ever wonder why you had been ordered to carry out a trivial task? That is what gradually builds a reaction where you carry out an order without question. Might get a bullet otherwise. Unfortunately I believe that the responsibility for working out what is legal about an order is now upon the recipient. As for the nuclear exchange, in the aftermath with people in their death throes, what do you think any surviving armed forces are going to do? Obviously you have other ideas to me.