Poll: Has Honour Died out?
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Most people in this day and age have something called Twisted Morality. In other words, it's fine as long as I don't get caught. An example of this; Underage Drinkers/Smokers.
It did on the battlefield. But I still value honor/honour a lot in my personal life, and I try to act as honerably as possible when I can.
You mean, do I have a set list of rules that I strictly follow in an attempt at preserving morality? No, no I don't. Every rule has a situation in which it won't work, instead it is better to judge the best choice for any given situation. That doesn't mean that honor has died off, it means that it has been addapted to our world of grays, as opposed to continuing to pretend that things are black and white.
If you mean, do you have rules for yourself to prevent you from being a complete arsehole? The answer is yes.There is an element of "it's ok until I'm caught" but at the same time there's helping people out because no one else will.
I'm morally grey.
I'm morally grey.
I really don't think "Has honour died out" is the right question to ask here. Really the Honour code, or code of discipline is more dating back to fedual japan, medieval europe, the roman empire, etc then it is to todays society. I would rather pose the question of "Has today's generation lost its respect". To that I would answer, most definitely.
Though to answer the question. I would say it has on the whole. I was personally brought up to respect my elders, be a gentleman towards women, say my P's and Q's, as well as having a strong work ethic instilled in me. I've found that in today's youth (I'm still young, 25, but I'm talking about teenagers mainly here, say 12 - 20) there is none of those qualities. Sure, you'll meet people with those qualities, but they are so few and far between now a days it's sickening. If the ture sense and wording of honour has really died out, then I blame parents and todays society.
Though to answer the question. I would say it has on the whole. I was personally brought up to respect my elders, be a gentleman towards women, say my P's and Q's, as well as having a strong work ethic instilled in me. I've found that in today's youth (I'm still young, 25, but I'm talking about teenagers mainly here, say 12 - 20) there is none of those qualities. Sure, you'll meet people with those qualities, but they are so few and far between now a days it's sickening. If the ture sense and wording of honour has really died out, then I blame parents and todays society.
I do definitely have a moral code, which unfortunately tends to bring me into conflict with a lot of the people I know, who have the aforementioned "it's ok if I don't get caught" mentality.
I am in certain areas; it really depends. Mine isn't a particularly consistent moral code; in some areas I'm quite strict with myself, in others I'm quite lax. It all depends on the situation, really.Cpt_Oblivious said:
I have a code to which I live by. It has served me well so far, so I think it's a good enough code.
there's a big difference between honour and morality, surely you understand this..
the age of honour has long since passed, especially in the traditional sense when ones enemy can be picked off from the other side of the goddamn planet
morality on the other hand has become objective, or only to be assumed under the conditions of it being personally beneficial
at least as a general statement.
it would be hard to find someone these days willing to sacrifice their own personal betterment for the sake of doing the right thing, people have become to shallow and self centred.
that said i am a perfect example of a shalloiw self centred son-of-a-*****, willimg to be nice insofar as i get something out of it.
the age of honour has long since passed, especially in the traditional sense when ones enemy can be picked off from the other side of the goddamn planet
morality on the other hand has become objective, or only to be assumed under the conditions of it being personally beneficial
at least as a general statement.
it would be hard to find someone these days willing to sacrifice their own personal betterment for the sake of doing the right thing, people have become to shallow and self centred.
that said i am a perfect example of a shalloiw self centred son-of-a-*****, willimg to be nice insofar as i get something out of it.
