Most of my professors can’t see the wider forest of meaning because they’ve become obsessed with a few mostly meaningless trees. - Charles E. Gannon

Stosh, you are insane.
"I am inspired. They are frequently confused.

If there's a chance to talk our way out of a fight, this is the moment. Once blood is spilled, it becomes an Honor issue. Finding a way back to a parley would be difficult and highly unlikely.
"Yeah, I heard about that crap," Karam muttered. "Scuttlebutt is that once Honor is involved, they become bushido bear-aardvarks beating their horse chests and making much ado about nothing.

You mean, control my instincts?"
"No, most of your species can learn to do that. The true challenge is whether you can control your predisposition to assume moral equivalencies where none exist.