Monday, 1 May 2017
WWYD: Following Orders
Your name is Sir Arthur Currie, the year in 1917 and you are a respected military leader. People in charge have demanded that you finish an attack at Passchendaele (in Belgium). You know that theh planning for this attack is not right and that following orders will cost the lives of thousands of men in your command. Do you follow orders and tell your troops to attack or ignore orders and lose your job?
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I would rather ignore the orders and lose my job, because I could not live with myself for leading those men to die when I could have easily saved them all.
ReplyDeleteOf course, if I know, that this will cost my soldiers their lives, I wouldn't do it. I would ignore orders and lose my job, unless there is a very good reason not to.
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DeleteI would ignore the orders and lose my job because losing a job is better than killing thousands of people.
ReplyDeletesend them in, my soldiers are my family and I wouldn't send them in their knowing the danger. the problem is they will just hire someone else to do it so plan an attack where the numbers are in your favour, if your a good officer you should be able to do that.
ReplyDeleteI would ignore my orders unless we really need this attack to be finished but I would risk all my soldiers lives if there is a better way to finish the attack
ReplyDeleteI would send them because it isn't my choice to decide what is right and what is wrong, yes I am in charge of peoples lives and I would do everything in my power to find the safest way of doing things.
ReplyDeleteI would ignore the orders an attack that costs thousands of soldiers is not good I rather lose my job to save thousands in cost of one job
ReplyDeleteI would ignore the orders, I would lose my job but it would save the soldiers lives. Though the next commander might send them anyways, at least I know I wasn't the one who sent them to die.
ReplyDeleteI would ignore the orders. I may lose my job as a respected military official, but that does not matter when there are THOUSANDS of real people's lives at stake. The families of all of these people would be forever grateful and I will be respected in a new way, that doesn't have to do with my status in the military. I will be respected because I saved their lives. If I went through with the attack, I would never be able to forgive myself. That is why I would not go through with the attack.
ReplyDeleteI would ignore the orders that I had been given . I would rather lose my job over being a respected military official. That would not matter to me I would be more worried about the peoples lives being at stake. if I had decided to take the orders I would be afraid of messing things up and I probably would never be able to forgive myself. I would rather not go through the attack and take the given orders
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't send the troops. I wouldn't send them because they will die and you would have to send the sad news home to their families and everyone will blame you for their deaths.
ReplyDeleteI would refuse to follow the orders and then try to explain my decision to my higher ups why it was a bad plan. My job is no where near as valuable as thousands of young, bright soldiers lives, I wouldn't be able to live knowing I sent thousands consciously to their deaths and ruined not only their lives, but their families lives as well.
ReplyDeleteI would not follow my orders because I would be saving our men for a better opportunity to fight.
ReplyDeleteI would ignore the orders because it would hate to live with the feeling of sending people to die, thousands would be dead. So I would rather lose my job. But then again it is not my choice what happens.
ReplyDeleteI wounn't send the sodiers knowing that they would all be slaughtered. I would rather lose my job than carry the disgrace and guilt that would entangle me, haunting me every day until the day I die.
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