Prison rules. Frontier justice.
Who gets to decide a matter of "honor"?......or perhaps that's code for ego?
You are referring to a dominance hierarchy, which, oddly enough, is the exact opposite of the philosophy of this forum.
Cultures that subjugate women, control through overt violence, and use stress as weapon against its people. Not to mention......have zero sense of humor (hurts their "honor" too much).
Strange to find guys promoting this on the RPF, but then again, trolling is rampant here. Luckily we have a great ignore feature.
Cheers!
"...ill-health creates schemers and impostors, who impose and exploit repulsive, false hierarchies through which the weakest reign by virtue of their own lowliness. of course, the weak, by virtue of their weakness, cannot rule, so these orders disintegrate.." For sure, this is what becomes of most aikido dojos; they get this cancer and crumble under it.@rei humans are animals in every way. there is nothing non-animal about humans and there never will be, regardless of how complex our society gets. when you punch someone you are making a bet and when you deliver an insult you're doing the same.
@thomas00 i don't know what to tell you, bro. i suggest you do some more thinking. especially the last comment really testifies to your lack of comprehension of what we're talking about. all human interaction involves value judgement, including an implicit understanding of the power order. the closer someone is in the order of power, the higher the potential for friendship and the higher the potential for enmity. you seem to believe i say establishing hierarchy is the goal of every interaction, when i'm really saying the implicit understanding of hierarchy is the prerequisite for it. "dissolving hierarchy" is an illusion, because all you can do is reorganize it. cooperation is hierarchically organized. i don't really understand why you made that last comment
@cyclops we can't even speak for the "lowest" of animals but speaking for humans as a whole is easy. what they are "thinking" during social interaction is irrelevant. the only thing that matters is how they act and how they are reacted to. ironically, you are trying to intimidate me with your assertion and instead end up illustrating my point
although i thought it was obvious, i'm not talking about hierarchy as "i am stronger than you therefore you do what i say, he is stronger than me therefore i do what he says". human hierachies are infinitely much more nuanced than that, as is warranted by our complex social structures and high intelligence. however, conventions and pretentions are often stripped away, as in the cause of professional fighting, where will and ability are allowed to clash freely.
people on this forum seem to be fine with reducing someone's personality to a chemical imbalance, but are seemingly blind to the fact that the structures in which all other mammals organize themselves and through which they understand themselves also apply to humans. there is nothing bad about being weak. what's bad is not recognizing it. ill-health creates schemers and impostors, who impose and exploit repulsive, false hierarchies through which the weakest reign by virtue of their own lowliness. of course, the weak, by virtue of their weakness, cannot rule, so these orders disintegrate