“Loyalty above all else except Honor.”
The first person to say this to me was my Dad. (THANK YOU, Dad.) I try to live by this code. Some call is anachronistic in today’s day and age. I call it necessary! Too many humans today are more worried about ‘oh, is my hair right? is my collar popped enough? am I wearing the right clothes? am I using the right perfume/cologne?’ Not enough are worried if they are doing the RIGHT THING. …..
“The Right Thing.” “Loyalty” “Honor” “Duty”. As humans, we would hope we are doing these, living these. Let me break these concepts down:
Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause (Yoinked from Wiki – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty)
Honor is a primal code of behaviour that defines the duties of an individual within a social group. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor)
Duty is a term that conveys a sense of moral commitment to someone or something (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty)
“What does ‘Loyalty above all else except Honor’ MEAN though, Danuin!?” It means be faithful and support your ideals, friends, family, country. It means that we have the obligation to KNOW what is right or wrong and to follow that path. It means that if your best friend wants to commit a crime that you are MORALLY obligated to call them on it and help them through it. And if that friend goes through with it, it is incumbent upon you to make the decision if your HONOR and DUTY compel you to report it.
This will be a decision for EACH PERSON. You can argue all you want about the morality of the crimes. This is a deeply personal decision that we all have to make.
Eh,enough rambling for the moment.
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