Back during hunter gatherer days, warring tribes would take each other prisoner and cannibalize each other. They did this because of two reasons, one is because over population meant pure starvation naturally causing scarcity and two because of honor codes and their belief systems of devouring their enemies.
It's sort of the same thing as saying "haha F you" lmao.
In my opinion honor is always about ego. I only say that in context of countries that have the warrior culture mentality, like with honor killings, when women and males can get killed for marrying into different caste systems. Their families want what they want at the expense of their daughters and sons, all because of centuries old prejudices and their more than willing to kill their loved ones because their frail egos say that the physical matters more at all costs.
In the old days you could get killed for making fun of whatever that societies God was at the time, you still can even in the U.S. For that reason, honor codes are a lot like visionary serial killers who think their righting the ills and woes of the world with their delusional based narratives. During religious crusades they were murdering people because of their imaginary version of a utopia that never happened.
They said all the godless heathens must die, they do wrong by God, their not like us, they don't look like us, their outsiders. Well who says? Obviously those religious people were much better moral people than us godless heathens dancing under the moonlight making pacts with the devil (hyperbole.)
How dare us? 😆
However sometimes what people see, is not really what is there in the first place. In psychology, they say the brain lies to us because it's a defense mechanism that allows us to survive with our mistakes.
However with that same mechanism, people can hurt others even with the best intentions in mind.
Speaking of proverbs lmao:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Therefore, it's much better to practice being humble because at the end of this life every single living being including plants are going to leave that honor behind to grow more life out of the naturally present chaos. The sooner cultures get over themselves to realize they take life for granted in the stupidest way possible, the better.
All that matters is that you live without doing harm and if you do harm intentionally or unintentional and want to change how you are, either own up to it or if you can't own up to it.. learn from it. You can't change the past but you can make sure you don't do it to others.
We evolved as animals, we still have a primal lizard brain. This is NOT our fault, humans have to be taught logical consistency or we revert back to primal nature.
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