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What shall you risk?

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Posted on July 18, 2008 - 6:44am at Sense of Events
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Capt. Rick Rubel, USN-Ret., distinguished Professor of Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy, offers an ethics thought experiment on "leave no one behind." What - and whom - does a commander risk in order "to bring home one wounded servicemember or a body?"

This becomes one of the most difficult moral decisions of command — losing an unknown number of lives to uphold the important code, "Leave no one