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In a world awash with virtue signalling, we need to bring honour back
We are losing track of some of the core values that hold a society together.
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Behaving honourably means doing the right thing even – or especially – when we will not personally gain from it.
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Jemima Kelly
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Over lunch recently, a fellow writer uttered a word that rather took me by surprise.
My companion described the trend of people making private digital communications public – such as Kanye West’s recent leaking of text messages from his personal trainer, or a Vox journalist’s decision to publish Twitter messages from the former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried – as plain “dishonourable”.
