Even before the atrocity to decorum and human dignity that was Tuesday's press conference with New York mayoral candidate Anthony Carlos Danger Weinerer and his wife Huma Abedin, there were more than a few excellent reasons not to cast a vote for the disgraced former congressman.
The argument is expectably framed by Pufendorf's general assumption that such counterproductivity would violate the divine intention of having human actions display a certain "order, decorum, or beauty" (DJN II.1.5; Pufendorf 1994a, p. 138); however, it is solidly based as well on a description of observable human tendencies and behaviors.
And then there were the resident players who had absorbed the New Orleanians' famed techniques: the trumpeter Bubber Miley joined the Washingtonians before their first uncertain year was out and, with his waa-waa outbursts and uncannily human shrieks and cries, quickly blew their decorum away.
Aidan Dunne, for example, reviewing the exhibition in Dublin in 2007, recognised how a single blonde model, "unmistakably" herself, in 1966 led Freud to push "the bounds of decorum in terms of mainstream depictions of the human body considered not as a generic type but as, to use his own term, a 'naked portrait'".
Nothing that happens at the Maze is hidden, euphemized or excused, though even the most harrowing scenes have a curious air of decorum, as if Mr. McQueen was trying to bring human dignity into a place where it has all but vanished.
Even if you consider yourself to be the fun exception or an amusing anomaly, there is a bit of decorum one must respect in established circles of humans.
Between the Mozart waltz during the opening credits and the closing shot of symmetrical shrubbery, an atmosphere of chaos reigns: decorum and ceremony are continually undone by the overflow of human feeling.
Decorum may have been an issue, but it was fairly safe to show human embryos isolated from the rest of the pregnant body; the problem was more that before Darwinism few people would have recognized them.
Of course, we are humans and react to events as they happen, but remaining in control is critical to ensuring a professional decorum.
Diplomatic decorum was forgotten.
