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’.
Something like that. It’s a form of the attribution error if you think about it: when I do it, I’m defending honor, when they do it they’re succumbing to moral decay
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Yep, that was one of the issues I was trying to solve: within the group absolute def of honor holds, between groups it doesn't. No universals. Guardians are unavoidably thorny, but they don't just get let off the hook. Owning good, but tragic choices is key to virtue ethics.
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