Status in an honor culture, ironically, seems to be about how much you can cheat
The gods are seen to favor you in proportion to how much cheating they let you get away with.
This is a big theme in the Mahabharata. 90% of the cheating in it is by the god-favored ‘good guys’.
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Fair enough. though these are fairly nuanced conversations. I see Krishna and Bhishma as two parallels. One chose dharma (his oath) but supported a descent to evil. The other chose the path of adharma to establish dharma. Bhishma remained clean, but could've avoided the war.
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And Balarama walked away entirely
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Its about knowing how to deliver justice. Duryodhana had come into the mall-yudh with an indestructible body -> in modern day sports, athletes are dismissed if found to be on performance enhancing drugs. Are those detection mechanisms cheat-sheets of under performers?
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