Hostages of honor: five main male codes of conduct. Five Men's Codes of Conduct

Collected codes of honor of all times, to talk about the main male laws, and to understand what differences and similarities can be found in the codes of the knight, boy scout, gentleman, duelist and mafioso.

Today we will talk about the codes of honor of a knight, gentleman and scout. But tomorrow about the codes of the duelist and the mafia...

CODE OF THE KNIGHT (XII century)

Chivalry was the moral system of the Middle Ages, which rested on such qualities as courage, bravery, honor and gallantry. All future men's codes in one way or another repeat and idealize the knightly code of the dark ages. This code was first written down in the Song of Roland - heroic poem XII century.

5 points from the code of chivalry

1. The knight despises monetary reward for the deed.
2. Respects women, protects the weak and defenseless, helps widows and orphans.
3. Never runs from the enemy.
4. Does not refuse and is not afraid of a fight with an opponent of equal strength.
5. Fears God and supports the covenants of the Church.

Printed based on the work “The Song of Roland”, written in the 12th century.

THE GENTLEMAN'S CODE (1839)

Since the term “gentleman” has existed, hundreds of gentleman’s codes have been written, but one of the strictest is the code of the oldest military institute in the United States, the Virginia Institute, founded in 1839. Virginia is a southern state, which meant in those years that the local society was traditional and conservative.

The Virginia Institute provided grueling training, military discipline, and a strict gentleman's code: “Without strict adherence to a fundamental Code of Honor, no man, no matter how he looks, can be considered a gentleman. A gentleman's honor requires the sanctity of his word and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is a descendant of knights, crusaders, he is a defender of the weak and a knight of justice."

5 points from the gentleman's code

1. Do not borrow money from a friend, unless absolutely necessary. Money borrowed is a debt of honor that must be repaid in as soon as possible. Debts of deceased parents, siblings or adult child fair man takes on himself.
2. Do not lose your temper, do not show anger, fear, hatred, embarrassment, excitement and fun in in public places.
3. Don't slap strangers on the back or touch strange ladies.
4. In conversation, do not mention names or how much things cost.
5. Do not take advantage of another's helplessness or ignorance and do not allow yourself to be taken advantage of by another gentleman.

For your attention - codes of honor of all times, to talk about the main male laws and understand what differences and similarities can be found in the codes of a knight, a boy scout, a gentleman, a duelist and a mafioso.

CODE OF THE KNIGHT (XII century)
Chivalry was the moral system of the Middle Ages, which rested on such qualities as courage, bravery, honor and gallantry. All future men's codes in one way or another repeat and idealize the knightly code of the dark ages.
This code was first written down in the Song of Roland, a heroic poem of the 12th century.

5 points from the code of chivalry:

THE GENTLEMAN'S CODE (1839)
Since the term “gentleman” has existed, hundreds of gentleman’s codes have been written, but one of the strictest is the code of the oldest military institute in the United States, the Virginia Institute, founded in 1839. Virginia is a southern state, which meant in those years that the local society was traditional and conservative.

5 points from the gentleman's code:

1. Do not borrow money from a friend, unless absolutely necessary. Money borrowed is a debt of honor that must be repaid as soon as possible. An honest person takes upon himself the debts of deceased parents, brothers, sisters or an adult child.

2. Do not lose your temper, do not show anger, fear, hatred, embarrassment, excitement and fun in public places.

3. Don't slap strangers on the back or touch strange ladies.

4. In conversation, do not mention names or how much things cost.

5. Do not take advantage of another's helplessness or ignorance and do not allow yourself to be taken advantage of by another gentleman.

(Source: 1839 Virginia Military Institute Honor Code (1997 revision)

SCOUT CODE (1908)
English General Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1908. The main goal The unification was to make real men and exemplary citizens out of boys. Members of the movement had their own code, uniform, hierarchy and awards. After two and a half years of the movement’s existence, there were already more than 400 thousand Boy Scouts in England and the association began to spread to other countries of the world, primarily to the USA.

5 points from the scout code:

1. A scout's duty is to be useful and help others.
2. Every scout is a friend and brother to other scouts, no matter what social class they belong.
3. The Scout unquestioningly obeys the orders of the patrol leader.
4. The scout does not lose heart and smiles, no matter what difficulties come his way.
5. Scout is polite and thrifty.

(Source: 1908 book “Scouting for boys.”)

THE DUELIST'S CODE (1912)
A duel, a noble way to respond to an insult to honor, was almost never supported by the state.
The dueling code used by the nobles was most often an unwritten set of rules, inextricably linked with the concept of noble honor and not fixed anywhere. Nevertheless, there were generally accepted standards for conducting a duel, which were collected by General Durasov and published in 1912.

5 points from the dueling code:

1. Having received an insult, the insulted person must declare to his opponent: “Dear Sir, I will send you my seconds.” If the opponents do not know each other, they exchange cards and addresses.

2. In the event of a grave insult, the insulted person, in addition to the right to choose a weapon, has the right to choose between legal types of duel. During a pistol duel, he has the right to choose one of the six legal types of pistol duels. When dueling with swords or sabers, he chooses between a continuous or periodic duel, and in the latter case he has the right to determine the duration of the fights and breaks.

3. An insult inflicted on a woman does not concern her personally, but directly falls on her natural defender, who becomes the insulted person, and the severity of the insult increases by one degree.

4. The reliability of defamatory facts does not give the offender the right to evade satisfaction, except in the case where the consequence of the attributed and proven fact is the dishonor of the offended person.

5. Having received a weapon, opponents must remain silent throughout the duel. Any comments, ridicule, exclamations, screams are absolutely not allowed.

5 points from the code of chivalry:
1. The knight despises monetary reward for the deed.

2. Respects women, protects the weak and defenseless, helps widows and orphans.

3. Never runs from the enemy.

4. Does not refuse and is not afraid of a fight with an opponent of equal strength.

5. Fears God and supports the covenants of the Church.

5 points from the gentleman's code:
1. Do not borrow money from a friend, unless absolutely necessary. Money borrowed is a debt of honor that must be repaid as soon as possible. An honest person takes upon himself the debts of deceased parents, brothers, sisters or an adult child.

2. Do not lose your temper, do not show anger, fear, hatred, embarrassment, excitement and fun in public places.

3. Don't slap strangers on the back or touch strange ladies.

4. In conversation, do not mention names or how much things cost.

5. Do not take advantage of another's helplessness or ignorance and do not allow yourself to be taken advantage of by another gentleman.

5 points from the scout code:
1. A scout's duty is to be useful and help others.

2. Every Scout is a friend and brother to other Scouts, no matter what social class they belong to.

3. The Scout unquestioningly obeys the orders of the patrol leader.

4. The scout does not lose heart and smiles, no matter what difficulties come his way.

5. Scout is polite and thrifty.

5 points from the dueling code:
1. Having received an insult, the insulted person must declare to his opponent: “Dear Sir, I will send you my seconds.” If the opponents do not know each other, they exchange cards and addresses.

3. An insult inflicted on a woman does not concern her personally, but directly falls on her natural defender, who becomes the insulted person, and the severity of the insult increases by one degree.

5. Having received a weapon, opponents must remain silent throughout the duel. Any comments, ridicule, exclamations, screams are absolutely not allowed.

5 points from the mafia code:
1. Never look at your friends' wives.

2. You must always be available for family affairs, even if your wife is pregnant.

3. Family members are obliged to tell each other the truth.

4. Money of other families should not be misappropriated or stolen.

5. No one can personally call himself a friend of the family and speak to one of us - a new person must be recommended by a family member.

Responsibility for a wrong action Situation. In the evening the whole family gathered for dinner. Upset Igor told what happened in physics class. During test work, after Raisa Ivanovna distributed different variants assignments, he quietly moved to his classmate Artyom, and it turned out that their assignments coincided. At the end of the lesson, the teacher collected the notebooks and saw that the children sitting at the same desk were doing the same task. Raisa Ivanovna said that she would reduce the grade of both students by two points: one point for moving, and another point for remaining silent. Igor said that only he should lower the mark, because he moved, and Artyom is not to blame. Raisa Ivanovna looked carefully and smiled with only her eyes, agreeing with this proposal. Mom and dad looked at each other and almost simultaneously said that their son acted like a decent person, his action was worthy of a real man. Role. 5th grade student. Result. Explanation of the parents' position. A list of rules for student behavior in class that you have compiled.

Translated into everyday language: a warrior, the head of his family and a worker for the good of society, which he associates with the Motherland.

End XX - beginning of XXI centuries, this gender order, unshakable for tens of thousands of years, has been adjusted several times. Biologically included defense mechanism population: “real men” are simply no longer needed. Humanity is on the brink of a catastrophe caused by overpopulation of the planet. Exactly the same mechanisms are activated in the animal world when the population grows greatly and a lack of food resources becomes obvious. It's time for the unconventional sexual relations, equality and even matriarchy, and other gender fantasies.

The issue of national security is that this planetary regulatory mechanism should not operate at the expense of us, our kind, our nation. This sounds somewhat selfish, but your own family, your own country, whether you want it or not, it’s closer...

In this sense, raising adequate, mentally normal, and generally normal men becomes a matter of the survival of states. Liberal Europe is already reaping the benefits of so-called gender equality. It would be nice for us to learn from the mistakes of others.

Here we must keep in mind that a man becomes a man as a result of some tension, primarily of the brain (to lay down his life in battle for his neighbor, to accept difficult decision, to become worthy among fellow tribesmen is an area of work of the brain, and not at all of muscles). And this organ is very energy-consuming. It consumes between a quarter and half of all energy required to the human body. Therefore, being a man is very expensive. It is not surprising that men all over the world so easily give up their evolutionary rights (or rather, responsibilities). Why bother? Finally, there are those who want to do our work for us! And the men readily withdrew. And the women fell into a trap made by them with my own hands. General female naivety, if not stupidity, has fed the eternal male laziness to its fill. Everything has grown together.

The problem, of course, did not go away on its own. Well, biologically different creatures cannot have the same rights and responsibilities. Nothing will work out this way, even penguins understand this. But the mechanism has already been launched. In numerous blogs of Western European origin, I read women whining: guys don’t even want to go to the other side of town for sex! They say, if you can’t bear it, then come yourself. And we'll split the bill for dinner in half. And in general, enlightened European people with male primary sexual characteristics argue, prostitutes are much cheaper than wives...

And I don’t even want to mention our “Russian” “the men are gone.”

Unfortunately, this circle is vicious. “Real” men do not appear because there is clearly a shortage of “real” women who could raise them. Hypothetically, trying to break the biologically justified vector for the destruction of traditional gender values, I would go back more than a century ago. I should have listened to our great-grandfathers. When it comes to preserving the population, conservatism is by no means the refuge of cowards, but quite the opposite.

Now on the Internet, among conservative-minded bloggers, the “Code of Honor of the Russian Officer of 1904” is being actively copied. Perhaps this is a “fake”, but as an amateur historian, I admit and even insist that this Code contains very important, fundamental provisions for decent, handshake men of that time. If we assume for a moment that a set of these rules will be instilled in men in primary school(with an age-appropriate interpretation of the provisions), middle (with examples from our rich history in this regard) and higher school(with full-fledged Courts of Honor), perhaps in 30 years our state will receive a generation of men who, with their honest work brings out a society that is exemplary for the whole world. And the whole way of our Russian life, our whole history suggests that the future of the Russian nation lies in following the call of conscience, the common message, the call of honor. At least we have all the prerequisites and a genome tailored specifically for this mission. The cartridge is already in the chamber, the firing pin spring is tense. Who or what will pull the trigger?

Also philosophically, a priori, I try to imagine this shot extended over 30-50 years. I see how the neo-capitalist scum will fall off by itself from the hot spiral of the “neglected”. Some sprouts of this new world are visible even now. Thanks to the unifying power of the Internet, people are becoming humanized, and this is happening in parallel (scary to say!) with the state. They, on their own, raise money for the terminally ill, find missing people, seek justice in the courts, and help the disadvantaged.

You will be surprised, but this new society is beginning to educate for itself and women. On the Internet, two years ago I was offered participation in a closed intimate club with the motto “Sex is the fulfillment of natural needs.” And the first rule of this club was: “If you meet a club member on the street, just pass by.”

But I didn't want to sleep with a woman and then just walk past her. Back then my sexual position seemed archaic. But now Internet advertising banners offer me something completely different: “Serious relationships for life,” “Only for marriage,” etc. The organizers of these sites follow the needs. But the needs of Slavic men and women, oddly enough, remain the same: they want love to be one and for life. Well, that’s how we are built, what to do now!

I would like to ask, why then do we need a state if modern society capable of self-organizing on humanistic principles of the highest standard?

When raising “real” men, as I already said, you cannot do without “real” women. It seems to me that they never disappeared. We simply stopped noticing them. They don't know how to behave in this hectic world. They are waiting for their evolutionary chance. Perhaps, when there are more real men among us without any quotes, maybe real women will catch up.

Code of Honor of a Russian Officer 1904

If you are not sure that you will fulfill your promise, do not promise.

Conduct yourself with dignity, simply, without foppishness.

We must remember the line where politeness full of dignity ends and servility begins.

Do not write rash reports and letters rashly.

To avoid regret, be less frank. Don't forget: my tongue is my enemy!

Don’t play around - you’ll compromise yourself, but you won’t be able to prove your valor.

With a person you haven’t gotten to know enough, don’t rush to get on friendly terms.

With a friend, avoid money bills. Money ruins relationships.

Don’t take personally offensive witticisms, remarks, or ridicule said after you, which often happens in public places and on the streets. Be above it all. By leaving, you will not lose, but will get rid of the scandal.

If you can’t say anything good about someone, then don’t say anything bad, even if you know.

Don't ignore anyone's advice - listen. The right to follow this advice or not will remain with you. Know how to use good advice To speak to another person is no less an art than to give good advice to yourself.

An officer's strength does not lie in impulses, but in unshakable calm.

Take care of the reputation of the woman who trusted you, no matter who she is.

There are moments in life when you need to force your heart to be silent and live with your mind.

A secret that has been communicated to at least one person ceases to be a secret.

Always be alert and don't let yourself go.

Try to keep your arguments firm and your words soft in a dispute. Try to convince your opponent, not annoy him.

It is not customary for officers to dance at public masquerades.

If you enter a society in which there is a person with whom you are having a quarrel, then, when greeting everyone, it is customary to shake hands with him, of course, if this cannot be avoided without drawing the attention of the owners or those present. The offered hand will not oblige you to anything and will not give rise to unnecessary conversations.

Nothing teaches like awareness own mistake. This is the foundation of self-education. Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.

If two people quarrel, both are to blame.

There is nothing worse than indecision. A worse decision is better than inaction or hesitation. A lost moment cannot be returned.

The one who is not afraid of anything is stronger and more powerful than the one whom everyone fears.

The heart is for a woman, the soul is for God, duty is for the Fatherland, honor is for no one.