"Young fellow ... you had better be a lieutenant. Because if you're an NCO and gave an order that stupid, I'm going to talk about you like a dog right in front of your troops."
Caveat: The speaker isn't part of the same military as the person to whom he's speaking, or even in an allied military, much less the younger one's chain of command. He thus doesn't feel the principle "Praise in public; reprimand in private" binds him in this circumstance, because his criticism is in no way official.
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I'm a very forgiving person ... on Lord Vader's terms. "Apology accepted, Captain."
Caveat: The speaker isn't part of the same military as the person to whom he's speaking, or even in an allied military, much less the younger one's chain of command. He thus doesn't feel the principle "Praise in public; reprimand in private" binds him in this circumstance, because his criticism is in no way official.
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I'm a very forgiving person ... on Lord Vader's terms. "Apology accepted, Captain."