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DeltAlum-
Very true! I had never even thought of war crime tribunals. Personally, I think there must be a limit to what orders people wll follow, and that each person needs to think about where that threshold is for himself or herself. But I also understand it's hard not to follow orders. You can get put in jail, and you can get kicked out.
Have you heard of the Milgram psych experiment wehre they asked people to "punish" other people by shocking them? They had a person stand behind a window looking at another strapped to some electrical wires. An authority figure told the person to shock the other one in the chair because they were bad. The people in the other room were actually actors for the experiment and pretended to be shocked. Most of the people shocked the other person at the highest voltage when told to do so, even though the dial said it was deadly. Very few people said they would not do that. They reapeated the experiment with puppies and the same thing happened.
Crazy, eh?
-M
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