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>what was the alternative? Allow the Harkonnen to remain in power and fuck off back to Caladan to die in obscurity?
Basically yeah. That's the thing about honor: You have to both live and die by it or else it was basically just a garment you wore when it was convenient. The honor of the Atreides is more than a facade but less than a truth, and that is why they must either live as a hypocrite or die as a fool.