Virtues of Bushido #4: Respect or Politeness - Why we need it
Seriously we need this one
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” It has been said by Robert E. Howard, notably in his Tower of the Elephant story written nearly a hundred years ago.
The same applied to the Samurai/Bushi of Medieval Japan. They were fierce men, but like those …