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code of conduct (noun): A set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group.Glendon Campus, York University, 1987
I was sitting in the corner of the cafeteria reading philosophy. Behind me the tall trees of Bayview showered over me through huge panes of glass while overhead a television set was playing an old Western movie, “The Magnificent Seven.” I looked up at the television. At the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Coahuila de Zaragoza, Yul Brenner’s character comes upon Charles Bronson’s character cutting logs outside a humble farmhouse. He tells him of a job to protect a small farming village from a gang of pillaging thieves.
Chris (Yul Brenner): There’s a job for six men, watching over a village south of the border.
O’Reilly (Charles Bronson): How big’s the opposition?
Chris: Thirty guns.
O’Reilly: (Stops cutting the log. Pauses.) I admire your notion of fair odds, mister.
The call of my name breaks the awkward silence in the film. I turn and see Lydia waving at me from the far edge of the room.
“I need your help,” she exclaims. “We need an extra hand to take the kids of ...