Honor







It's difficult to speak about what honor is, for our culture has so few present-day examples. Honor is doing the right thing when it costs you. It is doing that even when no one is looking. It is refusing to duck the question--when a question of what's right puts you to some inconvenience or risk or interferes with your plans or ambitions. It is saying that questions of principle are important questions, important enough to have weight when you do not want them to.

Our society sees so little honor these days that you can stand out as a man among men by showing some. Women who are not impressed by it are not worth impressing. Remember, chaps: In the stories, it is the knight, not the knave, who gets the princess.



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