History has shown us how many people living under the Nazis abandoned their own individual moralities and killed millions in the concentration camps. Their excuse was that they were carrying out govemment orders. Those few police officers who disobey these orders have to face the loss of their jobs, imprisonment and persecution for the rest of their lives. Not everybody is able to take this risk. In every age there have been some who have knuckled under to tyrannical rule and others who have been driven to fight it.
Different societies have different morals.
Each society's moral standards are relative and depend on its financial situation, political structure, religion, education and culture. Whoever takes their ethical education solely from religion will also defend any inhuman practices in that religion as right and good. As individuals we should rather use our own codes of ethics as the measuring rod. In my opinion reasoon, intelligence, conscience and heart are he qualities necessary to acquire moral understanding. It's important to follow the laws of your country up to a point, but when religion or the State attacks an individual's own moral identity, then it is constructive to be disobedient.