[Ansteorra] need a statement describing honor

[Casey Weed]

Animals do not have a sense of honor; you are confusing, among other traits,
loyalty with honor.

Honor is the sense we have of what we ought to do; what the perfect person
would do.  It is part imagination, part conscience, part courage, and part
discernment, written on the heart by God using the ink of our parents,
heroes, and mentors.  It can be grown and sharpened by observation or by
exercise.  It can also be stunted and pruned through misuse and neglect,
often to a point of atrophy or even extinction.  Practicality is the prime
murder weapon of honor; when we do what is ethically easy we stab and scar
our sense of honor.

As noble as a dog or a horse or a lion is, no animal ever dwells on what it
ought to do- especially when the "honorable" outcome quite regularly is in
contradiction with what is in the best interests of it's own survival and
the survival of it's kind.  This is the sole provenance of man and one of
the greatest arguments for the existence of a divine hand in creation.
Honor is doing right when right is hard.

Ritter Dieterich Kempenich von Eltz