If Following Orders is no Defense

If following orders is no defense, as was established during the Nuremberg Trials, then all soldiers are murderers, and all taxmen are thieves.

Since we are all supposedly equal before the law, no person has any right that another person does not posses. If the taxman can take money from his neighbor, then we should have the same right. But we don't, and neither does the taxman. He is no less a thief than we had been had we sent your neighbor a form to fill in, with a threat to lock him up if he did not pay.

Dandy thug