In my response to the prompt i say that there really may be a way to fight off an unjust order but it would not be easy to do and you may risk getting executed yourself. But i say that carrying out the orders in no way makes you as guilty as the person who told you to do because it was not your choice and you are simply just following orders. I'm sure that the executioner would much rather not kill that person and use their lives for something more useful but i feel as though they have no choice. Im my opinion it could be combated by secretly letting the person go free without anybody knowing about it and advice him to never return to that city. Also they could just say no to the person commanding it and then run away so they could not catch them and they could live the rest of their lives guilt free from the thought of murder when they die. I don't think that any single person could end a cruel ruler but if the entire city ganged up on him then they could overthrow him and be rid of a cruel ruler and then get a better one and this could be accomplished by secretly telling close friends about the evil that is going among the royals. I think that using this method could have prevented alot of cruel rulers such as hitler is everybody in Germany knew about how cruel it was and decided to go down there and overthrow him but everybody bought into his nonsense and continued to keep him as ruler which is why the holocaust is allowed to happen. Another issue that is seen is that nobody knows this stuff is going on so there really is no way to fight it off if nobody knows about it.