virtue

HOM's chinatown jaunt in the heart of japan gets me thinking. for better or for worse, the chinese concept of honor is heavily laced with pragmatism, which perhaps is why you end up with a profitability-first paradigm. you have harakiri all the way to the world wars in the twentieth century. but for the chinese epitome of honor and loyalty you need to backtrack to the twelfth century, to the story of yue fei.