(August 25, 2014 at 6:53 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: If you want your duty protected then you are duty bound to protect the duty of the other. That is why the captain has a gun. To enforce duty.
So, not only does the Law of the Sea have precedence to your notion of duty but there is no room for exception as there is a man with a gun standing by to assure adherence. Nice system of ethics you've got brewing there.