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I never got "Honor". It seems such a dumb, convoluted concept that leads to only suffering and pain with nothing to show for it.
Mostly it seems to be used to manipulate young men into doing what someone else wants.
It's one of those concepts that is easy to understand until you try to understand it, and you can have a dozen valid interpretations that conflict. I would suggest, as a starting point for discussion, that it is an idea of proper behavior of how an individual behaves. While 'honor' can be described in martial terms, it doesn't have to be. Furthermore, individual acts that could be considered honorable can be undertaken without any particular honorable motive, but if one consistently acts in an honorable fashion, they probably have a sense of honor; you can work to attain a reputation for honesty and fair dealing out of a self-interested desire to be able to take advantage of that when necessary, and your sense of compassion might urge you to spare an enemy who cannot harm you or help someone who can't help you in turn without thinking of how it's a matter of honor that you do so, but if you keep performing things like that you may just have a sense of honor and be in denial about it.
I suspect that your issues with Lantern Xor may at least partially be because he seems to have an artificially made sense of honor that is meant as a form of social control rather than something more organic.