Reply #110: Wrong. The "just following orders" defense was used by Nazis who

[RaleighNCDUer]

NEVER questioned their orders. This refers to those who asked Justice about the legality of their orders, and were told "those are legal orders". In our military you have a duty to refuse illegal orders, but you have a commensurate responsibility to follow legal orders. Such a duty to refuse did NOT exist in the German army, it might be noted, and the entire military culture made questioning orders something of an oxymoron - you didn't obey LEGAL orders, you obeyed ALL orders. I would be astonished if a single camp guard in the entire third reich ever asked a lawyer if what he was doing was legal. They had basically three choices - obey, get shot, or desert. Legality of what they were doing was NOT a factor.

A truly silly argument.