User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-26884760-20160228104805/@comment-1969141-20160305174321

Because the category definition describes such villains this way. You do have a point, but if we go like this, we drown in complications and specifications, which we are trying to avoid. Basically, we could have called the category "villais who follow the laws of war" but "honorable" is shorter and clearer.

Any category is bound to be broad and debatable. But we tend to follow the general consensus