Hey Doris and welcome to you, why is such an act honourable?
On 29 Sep, 23:17, Doris Ragland <[email protected]> wrote:
> honor is that one gives up his self for friends.
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> On Sep 25, 5:32 am, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > On Sep 25, 6:48 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > On 25 Sep, 12:13, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > It seems an easy enough question. What is it, what does it mean to
> > > > have it, what acts are honourable and what not?
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> > > 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
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