Even under the harshest of conditions, Marines are expected to maintain that standard of honor.
"There is a standard of honor I wish the developers would follow," he said.
But if McCain loses, he will have contributed to his own downfall by failing to live up to his personal standard of honor.
The school's fervent anti-Communism in the 1950's, when J. Edgar Hoover's "Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It" was required reading, morphed into something darker: a sense that it alone held the standards of purity, of duty, honor and country.
Otherwise, Finra said, a firm would risk violating a real rule, one that requires firms "to observe high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade when conducting business with their customers".
"It is difficult to conclude that some of these activities satisfy the 'high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade' that the N.A.S.D.'s rules mandate for its membership," said Lewis D. Lowenfels, an authority on securities law at Tolins & Lowenfels in New York.
FINRA has repeatedly stated that its higher standard, including Rule 2110 (known as the "Fair Practice Rule"), requires that members observe "high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable practices of trade".
The thing you notice, reading about McGovern, is how by any basic standard of human honor he was just a better person than this president has been able to be.
Virginity standards like these are part of honor cultures in the Middle East and countries such as Serbia and Slovenia.
