Well, an individual must abide by the code of his/her culture although
one can walk away from dishonour and generally pay a steep price for
it. I think it means doing the right thing despite the cost.

On Sep 25, 6:48 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25 Sep, 12:13, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It seems an easy enough question.  What is it, what does it mean to
> > have it, what acts are honourable and what not?
>
> It mostly depends on culture.  It was honourable to the Aztecs to be
> sacrificed to Quetzalcoatl, I doubt many today would feel the same.
> Thieves, at one time, had a code of conduct, making some theiving
> honourable and other thieving not honourable.  Seppuku (harakiri) is
> considered honourable in Japanese culture, but viewed as simple
> suicide and damnable by the West.  Roughly, honour (like good and
> evil) is, like its opposite, shame, an opinion/perception and is
> relative.
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