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Situation 1.: You are an good and honorable man in city watch, suddenly you get an order that u most kill a two month old child. What do you do? Refuse and take the punishment, flee?



Situation 2. You are ordered to kill Eddard Starks septa as an Lannister soldier,



Situation 3: You are member of house Bolton and are ordered to kill north men at red wedding.



Make new situations if u want.



Note: You can't answer that you follow the order, because you are here an good person whose moral clearly says that these actions are wrong ;)


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You shouldn't accept the position of City watch if you have that kind of morality.

If you are somehow naive enough to be shocked that the police are corrupt and you still want to keep your morality then resignation followed by whistleblowing is the course of action there.

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You shouldn't accept the position of City watch if you have that kind of morality.

If you are somehow naive enough to be shocked that the police are corrupt and you still want to keep your morality then resignation followed by whistleblowing is the course of action there.

Let's say that Davos had ended up in City Watch instead of being and smuggler. I'm sure he would not have followed that order, but what would he do.

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Probably get punished to some extent for disobedience?

There's not much else to do besides run away.

In situation 1: You could claim that you have killed the child, but in truth you have just moved the child to an other family\place. Here the hard part would be to convince the other gold cloaks to keep silent who were with you...

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A lie compared for killing a child is a easy choice if he has good moral.

There are other options like making it public that someone is trying to get you to kill a baby. Westeros is a rough place but there are still a few people who will be like "really? Killing a baby? That's not cool!"

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Or an other institution.

Situation 1.: You are an good and honorable man in city watch, suddenly you get an order that u most kill a two month old child. What do you do? Refuse and take the punishment, flee?

Situation 2. You are ordered to kill Eddard Starks septa as an Lannister soldier,

Situation 3: You are member of house Bolton and are ordered to kill north men at red wedding.

Make new situations if u want.

Note: You can't answer that you follow the order, because you are here an good person whose moral clearly says that these actions are wrong ;)

Ill do like Selmy ie obey every rule and hope that people will still think Im honorable

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The thing is our basic moral code would be different in those contexts. All my life I've obeyed the Boltons and based on their history I have reasons to tread especially light around them. So if they tell me to kill Northmen, I'll probably do just that, and suppress my guilt into alcohol and sleepless nights. Or maybe I don't feel any guilt. Maybe I feel proud to have served my liege lord faithfully. Maybe I've been raised on secret anti Stark propaganda in secret. Who knows

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I know you excluded the option but I suppose that I would kill them. It wouldn't be easy for me but I would do it. Because if I didn't I might be arrested, put in prison, executed etc. The other option is to flee the city but that makes me a deserter and if they catch me, I will be arrested, put in prison, executed etc. If I weren't able to obey this kind of orders, I shouldn't have joined the City Watch.


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It really depends on the time and distance betweent the order and the victim. If the baby is in front of me, all I can do is refuse and be punished. Whereas if I know in advance I could send warning and have the child hidden or even swapped with a child that died of natural causes (there's probably unfortunately many in fleabottom).



With the third scenario I probably kill Stark men. I'm a mushroom, kept in the dark and fed bullshit. For all I know the Stark were moving against my lord.


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