I see no purpose to honor other than to convince people to take actions that are against their own interest. I am not the only one making assumptions: You call judgements you disagree with 'witless'. There is thought behind the judgment. That you disagree with it does not change that fact.

You can call me a cowardly idiot. There is no need for false civility.

Do you? You don't act like it. It might be true that in the short term that killing all who oppose you down to the newest recruit is the safest course of action, but in the long term it is destabilizing.