SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Forces
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Week 1 discussion questions: kelman and hamilton portray certain events during the my lai massacre as random, whereas they argue others were organized. 2 levels of orders: vague from above calley, specific from calley. But the authorization allowed them to go on with these acts. Unclear orders, spontaneous killings,rapes, vague, not ordered by the army. There is different articles, there"s a list having it being premeditated, intent, and not killing unarmed civilians. Killing is permitted under certain outlined conditions. Only one person proven guilty - calley - because his acts were prosecutable under the law. The framework is so ambiguous and hard to apply to cases, that others involved in the massacre were not prosecuted. All the people who died were considered enemies. Not very distinct at all, no distinction between what can be done and what can"t be done. Calley case came down to how he should"ve interpreted of the same orders that calley got.
