[MR] defining terms like chivalry courtesy etc

[Becky McEllistrem]

In rethinking my last comment, it's not really that hard to define courtesy.  It's not all that relative a term.  We all know what we should be doing.  We all know how we want to be treated and how we should treat each other.

We like to engineer these concepts as complicated because we want to come up with ways to excuse actions we know we shouldn't be doing.  I've been sucked into that and caught myself later.  

As to the historical term of chivalry I've done no research into that but it seems to me that those with a conscience know how to best behave on a field and off a field.  Unfortunately we are capable of working our way out of a conscience and from what I understand it's pretty difficult to grow one back.

Competitions that look for the "most chivalrous" fighter seem to cause confusion because of historical references.  Maybe we should be looking for the "most courteous" fighter.  That goes back to our conscience and what it tells us we should be doing on or off the field.

Rebecca