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“Having honor means being entitled to respect,” philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah writes in his seminal book The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen . Honor involves both doing right for the sake of doing right—being a person of integrity and high moral values—and also doing right because to do wrong would mar one’s reputation, and crucially, decrease one’s standing in the community. Honor, he writes, is a code adhered to and socially enforced by groups, and while it may differ between identities (honor may be different for a soldier vs. a civilian or a man vs. a woman) and can demand acts of profound immorality in its service (honor killings, for example),

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