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Truthfully, Joe, the "toleration" clause of the honor code
is critically important, and that is why it is called the Bedrock of the USMA Honor Code. "Holding peers, subordinates & seniors to the principles requires a deep sense of professional responsibility and moral courage
that often conflicts with personal loyalties. The non-toleration clause fosters and instantiates the sense of professional responsibility required of American officers. It fosters in cadets the ability to allow moral requirements to go beyond personal loyalties."
“Men may be inexact or even untruthful, in ordinary matters, & suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates, or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellow men & the honor of his govt.
"West Point's Honor Code’s fourth prohibition of non-toleration differs from the other three [Service Academies] because it involves taking a morally correct action rather than not carrying out a morally incorrect action."
Here's a quote that might interest many today: “Toleration is the basis for corruption. No organization can be corrupt if the majority of its members report unethical conduct.”
- Captain Charles Stone, USMA Values Education Officer
And one more important one:
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men."
- Abraham Lincoln
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