Honor, Dignity and Victimhood

[Neo-Scholastic]

Cato, thank you so much for finding and promoting this essay. It gave a compelling account of why those in the most egalitarian environments disproportionately feel aggrieved. The paper seems to tacitly endorse the notion that justice depends solely on cultural norms and social power dynamics. Missing is the idea that each culture tries, each in its own way, to reference a universally applicable concept of Justice, with a capital 'J'. The paper describes the nature of each culture but carefully avoids rendering judgement on any. For example, the author doesn't suggest the Honor Culture is too harsh, Dignity Culture too wishy-washy, or Victim Culture too whiny. Perhaps that is the conversation the author hopes to generate.