An honor code is a code of self-regulation which governs centrist institutions.
When such honor codes break down and the centrist institution becomes self-serving and refuses to discipline its members for violations of the standards and practices of the group, the larger society needs to step in and to impose the rule of law where before the rule of custom sufficed to govern behavior.
The creep of legal regulation over centrist institutions is a symptom of the breakdown of honor among those institutions.
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