Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Do you consider any Warrior Codes admirable? What do you admire about ancient civilizations such as the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Chinese and Japanese?
Sure and I have great admiration for all those societies. We in the West owe so much to the Romans and Greeks and I also admire Julius Caesar as a universal genius who was absolutely brilliant in everything he did from Politics, Commanding Armies and waging war, to art and literature and seducing women (and boys).
But his sense of honor I do not admire as he was willing to sacrifice millions of lives in the name of his honor from the civilians he killed or sold into slavery in Gaul in the name of his honor, to wars he fought to preserve his honor, to an entire Army at Munda that had surrendered in good faith that he had executed because he gave his word that he would take no prisoners and felt he had to execute them to protect his honor. No, I don't find that honorable at all. Caesar wasn't the only Roman aristocrat who did that too. Sulla, Pompey, Augustus, Marius, etc., did that too in the name of their honor, as did quite a few other Roman Aristocrats.
Hell after the Siege of Mytilene Lucullus ordered all the female camp followers who had worked for the Roman Army as cooks, maids, servants and prostitutes executed because he believed that some of them had been spies. When his legates asked him to rescind the order as being too cruel to execute all the women because of a few spies Lucullus agreed that his order was wrong and that he should not have issued it but he declined to rescind his order because he had given his word to execute them and he could not go back on his word to protect his honor. So all the women were rounded up (several thousand of them) and executed. Hell after that he then permitted the Women of Mytilene to come outside the gates to find and bury their dead men and made sure his Army protected them but he had no problem killing several thousand female camp followers even after admitting he had made a mistake because his honor was more important to him than their lives. That's the view of Honor the Roman aristocracy had. I do not find that admirable or honorable.
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