Paradise Lost

When we lose honor and character, what's left?

The Lictors Bring Brutus the Bodies of His Sons by Jacques-Louis David, 1789 (public domain - Wikipedia)

“Who first seduc’d them to that foul revolt?
Th’ infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv’d
The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride
Had cast him out from Heav’n” — John Milton, 1674

I was initially intending this…