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wardenferry419:
What Marcone says he is going to do; he does. What he does; he does with a committed purpose. Plus, he has a tendency to be protective of children. He is a warlord; but, that still makes him better than many of the people I have to deal with. :)
jonas:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on January 08, 2018, 09:57:40 AM ---What Marcone says he is going to do; he does. What he does; he does with a committed purpose. Plus, he has a tendency to be protective of children. He is a warlord; but, that still makes him better than many of the people I have to deal with. :)
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Funnily enough, as Samurai's greatest point in history was the warring states period, the very next passage in the subsection on Honor gives attribute to the views of 3 of the most notorious(but none were considered dishonorable however) in a literary epigram,
Nobunaga said,"I will kill her, if the nightingale does not sing in time."
Hideyoshi,"I will force her to sing."
Iyeyasu,"I will wait till she opens her lips."
Overall Warlord's are one of those things were Honor was taken seriously by all but the most thuggish. Even Genghis Kahn, I literal 'barbarian' was also cultured and scholarly. The purpose of Honor is to create a fine line or distinction in the approach, mindset and/or actions of a culture that's generally exclusive to that culture, although not as much as you may expect. Marcone's culture is Chicago and more specifically it's criminal element, that's the viewpoint that would then be applied, to which he is held in high regard indeed compared to the other elements so far represented in it.
and that sense of balance actually resonates quite well here, if not originates,
--- Quote ---In Judiasm, which believed in a jealous God, or in Greek mythology, which provided a Nemesis, vengeance may be left to superhuman agencies; but common sense furnished Bushido with the institution of redress as a kind of ethical court of equity, where people could take cases not to be judged in accordance with ordinary law.
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You know, stuff like Wereguild and Bloodmoney, personal revenge, ect. Stuff Marcone does.
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