Re: Firefighters did the Christian thing in letting house burn to the ground

"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, pcg wrote:

>> Yeah, but it's not the firefighters' issue.  You and Paul and others 
>> here seem to think that the firefighters -- who are, after all, only 
>> employees of the fire department -- should have said "Screw it!" and 
>> gone in there against orders.  But it wasn't their call.
>
> Civil society has well established and agreed upon the fact that "just 
> following orders" is not a defense.

True.  But unless you're going to compare loss of property to an act of 
genocide, what's your point?

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