Honor, murder and "the law".

[120mm]

Finally, I think I can get back to the issue I think 120mm raised - what happens when one law collides with another law. Say, the Marine Honor Code and the UCMJ, as in the Tom Cruise movie, A Few Good Men, where from a trial lawyer's standpoint they got the military judge right and not much else. Anyway, it does present the outcome of collisions between laws, where there is also a collision of various ideologies - as presented by the Hollywood types who wrote the script.

I guess in my highly idealistic world, the honorable person breaks the law and then uncomplainingly accepts punishment, therefore satisfying both "honor" and "the law."

I think a very important question we need to ask ourselves, is "What impact is our insistence on forcing a foreign concept of "law" on a society where we are trying to fight a counterinsurgency have on our strategic goals?"