Today's MOZEN: What Honor?

 

F LoBuono

Human beings live by a certain code of conduct. Without that code, cooperation would collapse and human society could not exist. In fact, most higher life forms could not. Even wild animals follow a certain pattern of behavior that allows for the individual to survive within a group setting. If every member of your tribe/pack/herd, etc. is only saying ME, ME, ME, there is no collaboration and that species is doomed to extinction.

No Man Is An Island.

Because of our social nature, that code of conduct is so key to our survival that we have given it a variety of labels: ETHICS - MORALS - SCRUPELS - PRINCIPALS - INTEGRITY to name a few.

The very evolution of man is directly connected to observing the behaviors associated with these concepts. So, it is essential that we hold people to them - especially our LEADERS. Without their guiding principals we would remain primitive savages where only the strong survive.

One of the most important tenets of these principals is HONOR.

Honor is partially defined by Webster as:

Noun -

1. honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's action

Now, with that in mind, please apply that concept to the latest round of boorish behavior by our LAME DUCK President, Donald J. Trump.

How can ANYONE still possibly see ANY honor in the President's latest actions, i.e. The Pathetic Pardon Parade of what I like to call The Villains, Thieves, and Scoundrels Union?

These pardoned men are themselves without honor - thieves like Charles Kushner and Paul Manafort. Liars like John Flynn. And, murderers like The Blackwater bunch.

This President still seems a man who would be more than King but even Emperor. He is only interested in consolidating his own power - at all costs. And, if that means the loss of honor, so be it. Mr. Trump NEVER had any to lose in the first place!

This was true today, yesterday, and from the beginning of his public career.

The Marines live by this credo: DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR.

Its meaning is plane. They exist within a code of honor that is more powerful than even their fear of death.

We can never expect Mr. Trump to live by this code. It is simply not within him. He has no sense of shame. Therefore, he can have no sense of honor.

But, what we can do resign him to the irrelevance he so fears but still so richly deserves.