If you disobey orders, you are hung by your superiors. If obey orders and lose the war, then you are hung by the victors.

Morals or not, it is a sticky mess.

People have families to raise. It is hard to risk screwing your own family for the sake of high morals.

I am not necessarily justifying such, but Darwin tends to punish the high moral ground. I remember a PNR program on wistleblowers. Many of the callers who told stories were fired for not being a "team player". One medical technician told of a sloppy surgeon who covered up his bad work with lies and fraud. Ask to video-tape any operation you have.

I have been a peon under sleezbags who have asked me to help them sleezicate. I don't like to be in that situation one single bit, but there is often no easy exit. (It did not involve medical or safety risks, only money. What really pisses me off is that they had honest alternatives that appeared better from a success-standpoint than their dark plan to me.)