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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by rscho on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:57AM (#28878376)
"Just following orders" is the prototypical judgment of past events through the lens of current culture. Refusing to just follow orders meant torture and death for you and your kin under many regimes and in many historical episodes.
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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by poo-yie on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:19AM (#28878673)
Of course you're right. My frame of reference is for a civilized society in current times, where the individual is not subject to torture or death.
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