Well, I think the original post was about ethics and thinking about them and how they are instantiated (which, of course, includes law) in situations such as obedience to authority as in the Milgram studies.
The particular example of waterboarding is just an example or springboard for the discussion. My point about highest justice authority in the land was given simply because that is our highest authority of dispute reslotution over items of law and ethics. So, whether the supreme court ever got to hear and rule about this particular example is immaterial to the main discussion of ethics and obedience to authority. Indeed, if one does not obey the highest legal/ethical authority in the land one is prosecuted. So, presumably, one can be prosecuted for not obeying an authority and for obeying one (if your actions were later determined to be against the ethical considerations of some future authority). I think it would be very easy to get sidetracked into discussions about particular legal cases, but the original post as I understood it is not particularly about law, but about ethics. --Mike --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
