Oh the horror! Nelson, Lee and a boy scout!!!There's at least one website devoted to it but I hesitated to explore it in any depth, as images of Lord Nelson, Robert E. Lee and a boy scout, among others, were prominently on display. — Ciceronianus the White
We are not quite sure what we mean by honor now. There is less shared understanding of many things in modern liberal society, and certainly honor is one of those ideas for which there is no common understanding. Not only that, but for many it is not an important concept at all, having been replaced with the more democratic “morality.” For others, it holds mainly negative connotations–chivalric honor, which reminds us of sexism, warrior honor which sounds dangerous and destructive, and of course the honor of women as understood in modern political Islam, generating violence against women.
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