Honor Revisited
Fred Reed has a very interesting piece on LRC today:
Honor means nothing more than prickly infantile vanity dressed up, usually, in desperate class-consciousness. Of all the symptoms of a weak ego, honor is the most embarrassing, and the most harmful. In a right-minded society it would be made a capital offense.
Read the rest here
Mr. Reed hits the mark just right. The idea of honor must be deconstructed.
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Truth resist unapologetic prickles of mental and conscientious aggression. Peasants awaiting the deliverance from the lamb and relentlessly no rest derived for wicked.
Self indulgence banishes the thought.