RE: The importance (or pseudo-importance) of honor
Fun fact: There is some German "gangster rapper" who named himself Bushido. He's a jerk, of course. While codified honour mostly has a disciplinary effect and the behavior of honourable individuals spills over to society (sometimes in the form of blood), the more archaic and less or non-codified "street cred" kind of honour has no such function. It's usually just a cover for personal insecurity and/or to justify uncontrolled temper outbursts. Bushido - the rapper - is a first rate example for that kind of malicious "honour".
Anyway, I found your post for a different reason: I have seen that you haven't used your votes for witness yet and also haven't set a proxy for your votes. Currently I am working on a project for Steemit called @witness-qr, that aims to collect witness votes by users like you. The plan is to create a transparent rating system for the Steem witnesses and then vote for the most capable ones. I wanted to ask you if you could set witness-qr as proxy. Right now I am still working on the details for the project, but if you like I can give you the (draft of) the whitepaper to read. Thanks a lot!!