Excargodog

Who said I thought you did? What is the title of the thread?
At least when it comes to legal orders. In my military career I only refused orders three times, because they were illegal. In fairness, in the first instance I was filling the billet previously filled by an exceptionally unethical officer and I think the Colonel was simply testing me since he seemed quite unperturbed when I turned him down. The other two instances were officers senior to me who were not in my direct chain of command, who were pushing me to do something I believed to be illegal and certainly unethical. Both of them backed off with their tails between their legs. Don’t think my career suffered any from any of those episodes.

But we aren’t talking illegal orders here (although not everyone agrees with that assessment: https://thomasmoresociety.org/federa...gious-freedom/), just a stupid order. And it IS a stupid order - certainly at this point.