After the Civil War, the U.S. military was ordered to the American West to remove the Indians from large tracts of land and confine them to reservations. While this practice may seem ethically wrong to us today, U.S. soldiers fought hard to prevent the Indians from disobeying the law as written by the federal government. Even though some were sympathetic to the Indian's plight, most of them adhered to a _____ view of ethical behavior and strove to perform their duty as directed by the law.