disobey
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“The constitutional protections in our military structures depend on the idea that there are humans who would, we hope, disobey illegal orders. With fully autonomous weapons we don’t necessarily have those protections.”
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
“You can’t put on the screen that it’s right for a young girl to disobey her father,” Nava recalled Quintanilla saying.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025
If an order is legally ambiguous, a service member will only find out whether it was lawful to disobey at a court-martial, where a military judge decides.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
This means it is always far more likely that you and your crew will obey unlawful orders than disobey lawful ones.
From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025
“Do you really think I would disobey the order of the Collective? Are you doubting the Chancellor knows everything that happens on this ship?”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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