 Conditional commands can, likewise, be construed as having the force of a command of the consequent, conditional upon the antecedent’s being true. The doctor says to the nurse in the emergency ward, “If the patient is still alive in the morning, change the dressing”. Considered as a command to make Hook’s conditional true, this is equivalent to “Make it the case that either the patient is not alive in the morning, or you change the dressing”. The nurse puts a pillow over the patient’s face and kills her. On the truth-functional interpretation, the nurse can claim that he was carrying out the doctor’s order. Extending Jackson’s account to conditional commands, the doctor said “Make it the case that either the patient is not alive in the morning, or you change the dressing”, and indicated that she would still command this if she knew that the patient would be alive. This doesn’t help. The nurse who kills the patient still carried out an order. Why should the nurse be concerned with what the doctor would command in a counterfactual situation?