The Wisdom of Honor

Honor is the ultimate acceptance of responsibility for something.  It is the willingness to face up  to hardship, pain, sorrow, humiliation, loss and death and give absolutely everything for a principle or cause.  If it proves that your cause fails, your principle is broken, it is the willingness to accept the consequences.  People die for the sake of honor all the time.  Personally, I would rather that they live honorable lives thereby teaching all who come after them that is is better to live an honorable life than to die an honorable death.  An honorable life teaches us how to live.  An honorable death teaches nothing.