"What do you mean off topic, are you Cameron's defense lawyer. My comment was a reply to someone who brought up military law, his view on Jesse's actions in a thread titled simply what was Jesse's rank. .
And a writer for the show feels differently, he feels Jesse succeeded in showing John about humanity, which something Cameron clearly fails at and maybe Sarah couldn't do alone.
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"I was actually thinking about cults, and John Connor earlier today.

I wondered how many people would have believed he was a Messiah. I think there's a chance that even some of his own Resistance members saw him that way, and like you said it could create a problem when he screwed up."

"MIcrosoft doesn't order its men and women into battle. Someone signing up to work at a civilian company doesn't expect to have to kill someone, either. It's not possible to compare a civilian company to a military post JDay where chances are very good you will die. The casualties the Resistance seems to take would be, simply put, incredible by today's standards.

With people dying in droves you need those symbols, titles, ranks, etc. to keep them focused. A rank structure is passe? You've just doomed your army. Either you enforce discipline and a hierarchy with rank or with fear. Your "grunt" is going to attack Position X because you either order him/her to, or because you have a gun to his back. As soon as rank becomes "passe" that means your military has become an organization of equals, a democracy.

You're now just a walking corpse and its only a matter of time before you die.

There is a reason why militaries work the way they do. Civilians join the military all the time. Rank is hardly passe. The armies of other countries all use rank.

Hell, the military may be the only institution left which is organized and capable of giving the survivors of the nuclear war a purpose.

But as soon as rank and titles no longer matter your military is a demcoracy, discipline degenerates, and you lose. It's pretty simple. If democracy in the military worked the military would be democratic. It's not. The rank structure might be a little off, like having 28ish year olds like Jesse as O-4/5s, but we saw what happened with the "passe" approach on Carter."

"I think the two situations really aren't that comparable. You had mutiny on one side and on the other you had a single soldier sacrifice himself to save 40 people. Plus the Ogre, if I recall, was going to attack the bunker away. One's taking the initiative due to changing battle conditions and one's mutiny."

"Yes, but just b/c they both believed they were "right" doesn't make Jesse's decision any less wrong. Just b/c you think what you’re doing is the right thing doesn’t necessarily make it the “right” thing to do. "