Actual change starts with one's view over life. It is not a person that is injurious; it is not the individual itself that which draws down, but certain mindsets and absences of mind. And one the most injurious thing that a person can do is to intoxicate oneself with the horror of being deprived of one's dignity or of self-betrayal, if admitting their fault.
Honor is kept through loving oneself as a member of the human race, aware that when faults do occur, their purpose isn't to stigmatize, but to learn from them. The only way through which this stigma is permitted to live on is through the voluntary or involuntary losing sight of honor.
And how can one be rational all the time? Is that even possible? (I know that today's scientific views say that it is not possible, but one of science's purposes is to question everything) Irrationality could be due to biology and biology alone, then again, there might be something else just as significant in the picture. Maybe an inner reality? Does the fact that it is one's very own reality make one in total control of it or does the fact that it is part of the shared reality make control unrealistic? I think it is quite unrealistic to expect total control over oneself. And that who a person is, has partly to do with some kind of control, through reason, and partly to the things which one cannot control and are perceived as random. My question would be how random those things really are…