“Virtue and honor are all well and good in moderation but sometimes you need to stab your enemy in the back.”
I noticed that “virtue and honor” was used by bullies and schoolmarms to screw me over when I was a kid. I found out the power of the bullies was fake when I knocked them down from behind, or used an improvised weapon to negate their larger size (the thugs were often repeating a grade for failing it last year). After that, I really started questioning anything that required sacrifices from me without reward. I never went to prom, and I never went into debt.
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