[Discuss] Oaths of fealty and their confliction with other orders

[Boštjan Pajntar]

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> OK, say I'm your liege.  I put you in the elite army the Light Brigade, 
> which has a good, competent Marshal.  Then the Marshal gets replaced, 
> and you get an order that's a suicide mission.  I order you not to 
> follow it, and, along with several other lords, take it up with the 
> Light Brigade's marshal and sponsor.
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> Is it my fault you got conflicting orders?
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Yes your foult. Remove me from this army and I will not be in conflict. 
As long as I am in the army I am obliged to follow orders. And will get 
punished for not obeying them.
> How on Earth is clarifying the correct chain of feudal authority in any 
> way equivalent to making rules that bind you so tight you might as well 
> be a robot?  No one is saying which orders the Knights have to follow. 
> No one is saying which orders the Judge has to uphold.  All we're saying 
> is which orders should, correctly, take precedence.  What *actually 
> happens* depends entirely on the politics of the realm.
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There is no such thing in real life. For example, my wife orders me to 
make lunch. My boss ordered me to do some homework before that. Now 
mind, it was my wife that ordered me to get this job, so by your 
resoning she has to be blamed for me not doing my homework because I 
cooked lunch?

Marshal has soldiers assigned to him and they have to obey him/her. Any 
knight in his army not following orders should be punished. There is no 
other chain of command inside the army.
Why do you need to know which orders take precedence? It's completly IC 
thing of the players it has nothing to do with OOC. This is why I 
brought up robots. As long there is only one clear right thing to do 
most will do it and its boring. Leave some ambiguity.