What does honor mean to you?

[Krogan Doctor]

I'm asking as one who has loved the concept of honor since late childhood and adhered to it best as I possibly can along with the tenets of my Catholic religion. To me the concept of personal honor consists of three major imperatives: the imperative to gratitude, the imperative to loyalty and the imperative to keeping your word.

The imperative to gratitude to me is displaying nothing but goodwill to those who do good to you, a duty that is owed primarily to God. My approach to gratitude can be summed up in these few words: "Always remember kindnesses and repay them perpetually, wherever and whenever."

The imperative to loyalty means always performing to your best when in the service of another who has gained the right to your trust or love. I serve my boss gladly because he has proven himself both competent and caring, earning my trust.

The imperative to keep your word means to always go the distance when keeping a promise, that is to never let slight inconvenience or even anything less than a major impediment keep you from keeping your word. When you look at it, when you give your word to another human being you are really giving yourself a promise, since he or she is a fellow human being and your equal in the sight of God.

 

[DemonicAppleGuY]

I really want to make a joke about the social policy tree in CiV.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Yaarn... seems to be just stuff that makes you integrate well into a given group / makes the group as a whole function well. To be integrated into well-functioning groups is, in principle anyway, a nice thing, so yeah, go for it. But what makes me roll my eyes is this whole "It is not just useful - it is goood, like, inherently good, because...er... GOD says so". Is it really necessary that something is inherently good to believe in it? This is just a dead-tiring trope you now have the misfortune to be attacked for because I happen to find this an excellent opportunity to get it off my chest.

 

[Lillefix]

To me and I think to many Norwegians I think honour has a more narrow meaning than what you give it. It also has negative connotations, because we think about it as something that only people in the third world cares about(read: Muslims). Honour killings and all that.

So according to your definition I'm quite honourable(although I don't bother to show very much gratefulness even though I probably should), but to me the concept honour is quite foreign in a way.

 

[Hygro]

Good honor is ethics for the self.
Bad honor is social ethics by self righteous narcissism.

 

[timtofly]

Well honor is basically respect and for thugs to come to some resolve not to destroy each other would be the first building block of society.

 

[Agent327]

I'm asking as one who has loved the concept of honor since late childhood and adhered to it best as I possibly can along with the tenets of my Catholic religion. To me the concept of personal honor consists of three major imperatives: the imperative to gratitude, the imperative to loyalty and the imperative to keeping your word.

You seem to confuse the concept of honour with common decency. Unsurprisingly, honour is the one of most abused concepts in human history. (Women are killed because of 'honour', nations attack other nations because of 'honour' is injured, etc.)

 

[Dachs]

Honor, for me, is killing turians. Salarians, too, and sometimes asari (although they're too squishy). But mostly turians.

Turians suck.

 

[Wondering Kid]

Honor, for me, is killing turians. Salarians, too, and sometimes asari (although they're too squishy). But mostly turians.

Turians suck.

Urdnot Wreav, is that you?

Honor for me is living a good life, in which you have thought first of others and then of yourself. Never giving up when things got rough. Living up to your morals, or the ones you were taught; never betraying your own word. Being loyal to those who were fair to you, and being severe but just to those who have offended you.

 

[plarq]

Honor mean Ace, King, Queen or Jack in card games.