Honor's Paradox

[rolanni]

If you honorably serve a dishonored master, is your personal honor unsullied?

Discuss, with examples.


ETA: Lotsa people ducking the question here. Interesting.

Comments

[maddoxa.livejournal.com]

also came to give the military example, but with caveats to the above - if you honorably refuse to serve a dishonest master, odds are that you will lose your public honor anyway. You will know that you did the right thing, but the odds are slim that it will ever be recognized as such and your career is over.

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

I concur with your comment about public honor vs. personal honor. Just another way the universe mucks with us.