Does honour lessen or increase violence in warfare?

>Does this vague and undefinable concept affect a thing we'd never be able to measure across thousands of years and hundreds of different cultures?

>>2367376
Depends on how it is culturally defined.

When it leads to not executing POWs, it lessens it
When it leads to fighting to death in any circumstance, it increases it

The Necessity of Chivalry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBT9LasyC3E

Neither, honor is simply ideology to get other people not to use things that would actually work, such as asymmetrical warfare.

I have the best weaponry, training, diet, etc. and you, a peasant third worlder do not, which makes me better in a "fair" fight - according to my definition of fairness, of course.

So don't do things that actually work like ambushing me when I'm asleep or whatever, rather, 1v1 ME FAGGIT

As for the so-called laws of war, who ever is going to enforce them?
You? You and what army?
Will it be my enemy, then? My enemy already wants to be our executioner, and has already determined we are guilty. We're already at their mercy, we better have something the enemy can use if we want to be spared.

Look up the Hague Invasion Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act