Honor at Crappy’s

The story of a bar fight, the Air Force, and one still-not-quite-straight nose. Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Have you ever been punched in the face? For my first 23 years on this earth, I hadn’t either. My face jolted to the left, my vision blurred for a second, and I heard a ringing in my ears. I stumbled, but I didn’t fall. My lips and chin felt strange and warm in the cool evening air, like leaving the dentist with a mouth full of lidocaine. Joseph O. Chapa holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oxford and is a research fellow at the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Applied Ethics Center. He writes about technology, ethics, and war. His book, AI For The Rest of Us, is forthcoming with Air University Press. More Monday Essays