This weeks question is..."What is honor? Does honor matter anymore?"

Honor is defined as honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions. A source of credit or distinction. High respect as for worth, merit or rank. All of these definitions describe the same thing. Honor. To me honor means that you are thought highly of or take pride in yourself no matter what other people think. The question asks, Does honor matter? Well in our current world its hard to say. There has always been social problems in te world of humans, but here in the twentyfirst century I believe that it's worse than ever. Illegal drug use has skyrocketed, Teen pregnancy rates have gone up, and everyone s so worried about new technology and the world ending. -_-

Okay for one todays society isn't necessarily familiar with true honor and self respect. There are shows on television about teens getting pregnant and since many people lack common sense other girls get pregnant because they think they're going to get put on a TV show. Well it's not going to happen. what their really doing is setting up to ruin their lives and the live of others around them. Other types of media promote drug and alcohol use and the way they advertise it is so people think it's a good thing to do it. What's up with that? It doesn't make you cool. As for technology, sometimes I fear that we have gone too far. We keep inventing things faster than consumers can buy them, ecause its expensive to upgrade to a "better" computer, phone, or mp3 player. But technology doesn't always have to do with computer chips. Medical technology as also advanced, maybe too far as well. Like the whole freezing your body until the future thing. You basically pay a LOT of money for nothing, because wouldn't the freezing kill you anyways? And if the world is to end, then let it end. If it is written in fatethat i'm supposed to die, then I guess I die.

Alright i'm done ranting :) Even though i've mentioned theses bad things their are good things too. For our fallen soldiers ad other heros we honor them by having memorials. For example during the 9/11 attacks many firefighters, police officers and other city sevice people were killed. They died to save the lives of other people, and by doing so they went above and beyond the call of duty. They deserve to be honored for their bravery.

So honor does still matter, even when it seems like it doesn't.