Re: Firefighters did the Christian thing in letting house burn to the ground
"Lance McLain" <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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> Peter T. Chattaway > 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?-- Exactly. If there were a person in the house and they had the means to reasonably save them, then I would have faulted them for not doing so. But just for the property? I don't think they had an obligation (moral or otherwise) to defy their orders. regards, -Lance -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot