You have a way with words!A handshake was almost as binding as a written contract, and a person's word represented their integrity and worth as a being... wherein fewer went out of their way to fabricate justifications by way of shallow rationalizations in order to shield guilty egos from the reality of culpability.
I did some writing for a time and found at a younger age that if I was unable to clarify or articulate why I believed in the things I believed in, then I had no business asserting those beliefs until I'd vetted them for consistency. A 'put up or shut up' confrontational period with the self during the psychedelic era.You have a way with words!