Honor in the sense of "if I do good things I will be respected, if I do bad things people will be repulsed by my very presence, and this system makes me actually materially change my behavior for the better and not just be a hypocrite".
Honor in the sense of "if I do good things I will be respected, if I do bad things people will be repulsed by my very presence, and this system makes me actually materially change my behavior for the better and not just be a hypocrite".
yeah it was just semi-systematised moral & legal guidelines before we got the state to intercede in all that
for a long time most the work of whether someone was guilty of a crime or not was if they had a good reputation, people to vouch for good deeds... an honorable person could commit a real crime no problem