My guess is that Anna means something fairly specific by “honor”, but there are many cases of people using honor or similar abstractions to justify some really terrible things (lots of violence, for example). So if you were to tell most people to “maximize honor instead of do PR”, I could see this going quite poorly.
For one thing, for many people, in many important situations, “not saying anything at all” is a really good thing. Think of prisoners who don’t plead the fifth, or many other legal cases or otherwise. Arguably Trump and Elon Musk have been fairly damaging on Twitter to themselves.
I think a lot of PR professionals are quite bad, but this is true for most professions. I imagine in a lot of (good) cases their advice is “don’t say really stupid stuff”, and much of the time their clients really could use hearing that.
I feel mixed about this.
My guess is that Anna means something fairly specific by “honor”, but there are many cases of people using honor or similar abstractions to justify some really terrible things (lots of violence, for example). So if you were to tell most people to “maximize honor instead of do PR”, I could see this going quite poorly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_honor_(Southern_United_States)
For one thing, for many people, in many important situations, “not saying anything at all” is a really good thing. Think of prisoners who don’t plead the fifth, or many other legal cases or otherwise. Arguably Trump and Elon Musk have been fairly damaging on Twitter to themselves.
I think a lot of PR professionals are quite bad, but this is true for most professions. I imagine in a lot of (good) cases their advice is “don’t say really stupid stuff”, and much of the time their clients really could use hearing that.