Abusing one's duty is something that every human being has done or will do in their lifetime. This is caused by having such duty or a power sink to ones head and taking advantage. It is also by pretending that it is our duty. Pretending that it's ones duty and doing something that is completely wrong is against the morals and values that the US Arm Forces sets out for a military personnel. From the books Lords of Discipline, The Things They Carried, and the movie A Few Good Men, we see that some officers do take their duty a little over the line. Cadet Matt Ledbetter shows us an example of this in The Lords of Discipline , as well as so does Sergeant Jimmy Cross in The Things They Carried. In the great film A Few Good Men, Colonel Jessup shows us this as well as other military officers. Jessup and his fellow military officers make their duty to be more than it really is. People might believe that this quote is completely false and is not the definition of duty, but in other words what this quote is implying is one at times takes its duty and can make it into something much bigger than it really is. Duty can be taking something and making it into your duty even though it is not, and that is what this quote is implying.
             Making your duty a big deal and hurting someone while doing it can be considered evil. In the Lords of Discipline, we find an example of a character hurting someone while thinking its their duty. " He doesn't belong here, Will. It's our duty to run him out. We owe it to the Institute. We owe it to the line."(96). That was Cadet Matt Ledbetter in the wonderful book The Lords of Discipline. This was a conversation Will Maclean, the main character in the book, was having with Ledbetter. They are talking about a fellow cadet who is believed not to have the strength to go through the training in the Institute. The cadet's name is Poteete and he is a chubby, sensitive character that cries a lot and the upperclassman or C...