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[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Tris:

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and honor, keeping my word, has always been more important to me than ethics.

Um...Keeping your word would be a form of ethics, wouldn't it?

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Nope. Ethics are generally a culturally agreed upon thing. Maybe an illustration :

If I swore I wouldn't reveal what someone was about to tell me, and they revealed that they were killing and eating children, honor would dictate that I kept their confidence, while ethics would insist that I told the authorities to save children.

Option 3, satisfying both my honor and my ethics : kill the SOB without telling anyone what he'd been doing.

Frankly, I didn't think that what Norfleet revealed to me warranted killing.

Besides which "honor" and the kind of behaviour that apparently went on in this sad episode are mutually exclusive.

Another person's possible lack of honor or scruples doesn't tarnish my honor. Only my actions or lack thereof can do so. I didn't give P/N any information; I didn't lie to anyone; I didn't whine and conspire and fling blatantly untrue accusations about.

On the other paw, I can see why some people wouldn't want to be in games involving Norfleet, or some of the other people involved in the game, to include myself.