#honor system

But it’s funny because it really is!

Yes, Mordecestershire stole the core of the crystal, but by continuing the honor system, Marya is able to fix it.

I draw pyke a normal amount

Outfit below 👇

detectorists; ink and watercolor

last twenty days listening:

honor system - rise and run

honor system - single file

i like japanese hardcore - live on wfhb

downcast - downcast

randy - welfare problems

friends in real life - friends in real life

bruce springsteen - faithless

the doubleclicks - weekly song wednesday: season 2

loose leaf - growthefuckup

dowsing - no one said this would be easy

they might be giants - album raises new and troubling questions

taylor swift - tortured poets department: the anthology

dead milkmen - quaker city quiet pills

taylor swift - tortured poets department

the juliana hatfield three - become what you are

dillinger escape plan with mike patton - irony is a dead scene

You just add up what you owe, leave your payment, and go on your way. And if you couldn’t afford it, the sign said you could just take one anyway and pay what you could.

So I was just thinking about the honor system and about how we kind of think it’s flawed, and I was just thinking if maybe it’s Arthur’s self perception. Somebody made a point on one of my posts about why he thinks he’s ugly, and they said it was how he felt about himself based on his actions.

Which when applying that to the honor system I think it’s interesting, because there’s things you do, things that are more or less unavoidable for game play (fighting lawmen when running for you life or something similar) and you lose honor as a player it would frustrate me, because I felt upset about that. But it made me wary to kill lawmen or such as I continued my high honor play through, which I think would reflect Arthur’s feelings. He knows he has to, of feels he has to to live, but it makes him feel dishonorable which I think is an interesting distinction from bad.*

But I feel it gives a more in depth look at his character and what he thinks is honorable or dishonorable. Like the fish, if you keep it, it’s not dishonorable, but if you throw it back that’s high honor. So it’s like he knows he will make good use of the fish if he keeps it, but if he throws it back he’s like “yeah… that was nice…” or it just makes him feel good about himself.

Or the things like the debt collecting, not all of them but some of them they make you lose honor, and it’s just like the other ones are ones he feels he has to do for the gang, but the ones he loses honor for are the ones he feels especially gross about, soiling his character. Or hunting deer vs hitting a horse, one is for survival and one is downright mean. You get honor for petting dogs, feeding the gang, donating to different things and people. It’s just like a window into how Arthur feels about his actions.

* Coming back to honorable/dishonorable vs good/bad: I think the distinction is important because you can have max high honor, and Arthur will still deny anyone who calls him a good man, and in fact insist he’s a bad man. But. He is doing the honorable things. He doesn’t think he’s good, but he thinks the choices he makes are honorable.

Honorable: “adherence to what is right or to a conventional standard of conduct”

The honor system

My faith-in-humanity meter always ticks up a notch when I come across a commercial enterprise that operates on the honor system.

It's mainly a rural things - pop-up stands selling vegetables, eggs, firewood, etc. You just drop you cash into a slot and take your merchandise. It's performing honorably when nobody's watching.

The stand in the photo popped up just down our road from us. It features Mason-jar flower bouquets, homemade greeting cards and Mama Tisha's Wild Blackberry Jam.

In acknowledgement, perhaps, that few people carry cash these days, it also accepts PayPal and Venmo, complete with a QR Code.