This isn&#x27;t a direct comparison, but after World War II it was decided clearly that soldiers are not protected by saying &quot;my boss told me to do it&quot; when the commit war crimes or other atrocities. This is now called the Nuremberg defense and it holds no water at all.<p>The same principle applies here, in a general sense - but it&#x27;s sufficiently different in practice, I wonder how it would be treated too.