What's more important? Honor or happiness?

[KillerMuffin]

The honor that I'm referring to is defined by Webster as a keen sense of ethical conduct: Integrity or one's word given as a guarantee of performance. Integrity is defined by Webster as a firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values.

Happiness is defined by Webster as a state of well-being or contentment.

The question here is three-fold.

What is honor?
What is happiness?
When they come into conflict, what is more important to you, your honor or your happiness?

 

[Wanderer D]

Honor. Which may explain why my life is occasionally a wreck.

 

[lavender]

 

[Guest]

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

What is honor?

Adherence to my code of conduct of honesty/truthfulness, keeping my word, etc.

What is happiness?

Manyfold for me - it would take to long for me to explain

When they come into conflict, what is more important to you, your honor or your happiness?

Honor.

 

[LadyDarkFire]

If the two come in conflict, I generally go with my honor. I know that if I was dishonorable just to achive happiness, I would feel very guilty, and probably not be in the state of Happiness. To me, honor is staying true to oneself, being loyal to one's friends, and never sacrificing another person to futher yourself.

 

[Starfish]

I find happiness in being as honorable as possible.

Honor to me does mean doing what is ethically correct. I am happiest if my conscious doesn't haunt me.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Honor, to me, is adhering to my personal ethical code. Occasionally, those ethics affect my immediate happiness, but breaking from them would affect my long term happiness.

The problem is, my ethics aren't what everyone else would agree with, and dealing with their issues over my decisions also affects my happiness.

But, to finally answer your question, my evolving sense of honor is more important to me than a brief, shallow happiness.

 

[Desert Amazon]

 

[JazzManJim]

To me...

Honor and Character are pretty similar. It's doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do, then standing by what you've done.

Honor trumps happiness for me, which explains why I've been unhappy a lot, I suppose.