Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Having gone through the dilemma of whether to obey or resist, I found myself, against my moral and spiritual conscience, serving as ordered in Viet Nam. As a surgical technician, mine was not a direct encounter with the fighting but a position in which I witnessed the brutality and absurdity of war. I could not help offering my understanding to those deserters and resisters who, according to their higher conscience, refused any association with the military murder machine. I cast my vote for total absolution for these...
...states have countered that they represent the people's will and the people's morality. They are merely instruments, not ends in themselves. If he has a legitimate means of registering his dissent, the citizen cannot take illegitimate means or decide for himself which laws he will obey and which he will disobey. "In war, and in the court of justice, and everywhere," Socrates told Crito before he drank the hemlock, "you must do whatever your state and your country tell you to do, or you must persuade them that their commands are unjust." For each man unilaterally...
...there are some laws, even in a democratic society, that are so unjust that any man of conscience and determination cannot obey them. Segregation laws that discriminate against race are the best recent example in the U.S. Opponents of the war would say that service in Viet Nam is another. In that case, the conflict between the two arguments is in a sense insoluble, and the answer is not at all satisfactory: the law must be disobeyed, but the law's penalty must be accepted. That is the solution of the Thoreaus, the Gandhis and the Kings...
...provided India did. The Indians, with victory in view, said they "were considering" the ceasefire, which meant they would stall until they had achieved their objective of dismembering Pakistan. There was nothing the assembly could do to enforce its will. There was considerable irony in India's reluctance to obey the U.N. resolution in view of New Delhi's irritating penchant in the past for lecturing other nations on their moral duty to do the bidding of the world organization. Similarly the Soviet Union, which is encouraging India in its defiance, has never hesitated to lecture Israel on its obligation...
Demoralized and in disarray, the Pakistani troops were urged to obey the "soldier to soldier" radio call to surrender, repeatedly broadcast by Indian Army Chief of Staff General Sam Manekshaw. "Should you not heed my advice to surrender to my army and endeavour to escape," he warned, "I assure you certain death awaits you." He also assured the Pakistanis that if they surrendered they would be treated as prisoners of war according to the Geneva convention. To insure that the Mukti Bahini would also adhere to the Geneva code, India officially put the liberation forces under its military command...