> Prior generations committed their 'lives, fortunes, and honor'. I think you hit the nail on the head with this. We don't have honor as a social parameter an

> Prior generations committed their 'lives, fortunes, and honor'. I think you hit the nail on the head with this. We don't have honor as a social parameter any longer, so lives and fortunes lack the oomph of honor. Granted, we also avoid the historically evinced drawbacks of honor-based societies, but we seem to have thrown the baby out with the bathwater.