The announcement that squaddies are to be issued with a little 
red book on morals and ethics, that they are to be awarded a special badge for compliance with approved philosophical principles and are to be given lectures on morality by Army chaplains all sounds very nuLabour, very politically correct . . . . . and very strange.
In the morning the new recruit will be instructed on how to gut an enemy with a bayonet and in the afternoon he will be taught to love his neighbour. In a critical battlefield situation he will need to pause, refer to the moral manual, have a quick dialectical debate and then come to the correct ethical decision . . . . by which time it's all too late of course.
red book on morals and ethics, that they are to be awarded a special badge for compliance with approved philosophical principles and are to be given lectures on morality by Army chaplains all sounds very nuLabour, very politically correct . . . . . and very strange.In the morning the new recruit will be instructed on how to gut an enemy with a bayonet and in the afternoon he will be taught to love his neighbour. In a critical battlefield situation he will need to pause, refer to the moral manual, have a quick dialectical debate and then come to the correct ethical decision . . . . by which time it's all too late of course.
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