Defending honor can override the preservation of life itself

Evidence

There are individuals, however, who sacrifice their lives for their principles. As an adolescent, Alexander Hamilton, who became one of the founders of the United States, explained that he would rather risk death than lose his honor (Freeman, 2001). In a duel with his political rival Aaron Burr, whom he condemned as a conniving politician, Hamilton received a mortal wound defending his honor and died the next day. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 125

Categorization

• XREF: Hamilton dying for honor rather than using disengagement connects to the chapter’s question of when moral principles override self-interest - counterpoint to the founders who rationalized slavery. — connects to: Resolving the tension between honoring life and taking it is a perennial human question — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 631
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 125