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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1109)	9/8/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

To be fair, vendettas (feuds) and duels arise out of a compulsion to uphold honor before the world......

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1109)	9/8/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

"Avenge one's honor" is a well-worn phrase in English. The thing that struck me about the wrangling over the meaning of honor is that the principals aren't acknowledging semantics here. Honor has a dual meaning. One is, of course, this business of external respect or accolade. "It would be an honor." But the other has to do with one's internal moral compass ... "a soldier's honor", for example. Compassion may or may not be a cardinal component of the overarching quality of honor, and it may not. A Spartan father of a sickly child had a simple binary choice between compassion and honor. In my opinion compassion is a virtue of the second rank, as is, say, loyalty. Honor is a virtue of the first rank. Honor (in its second, internal meaning) is the sweeping concept used to denote that a person has a trustworthy set of principles.