A child who is expelled for bringing nail clippers to school is probably feeling the consequence of: zero-tolerance policy
Zero-tolerance policy is a policy to ensure the strict enforcement of certain rules or regulations of the entity. It bans against any undesirable action or possession of any undesirable items.
Answer:
Beowulf considered that if he would fight Grendel without weaapons, Higlac would appraise him honorable.
Explanation:
Beowulf is an epic hero in epicc poem with the same title. The epic poem iss one of the oldest surviving texts written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon period.
When Beowulf learns about the terror Grendel has on Herot and Danes people, he decided to go to Herot and fight the monster. Beowulf decides to fight the monster without weapons as he learned that Grendel also does not use one. Another reason for not fighting with weapons is that Beowulf considered that Higlac will appraise him for such bravery and deem him as honorable.
Thus the decision of fighting Grendel without weapons made Beowulf think that Higlac would consider him honorable.
I think the prime reason why a government would be unstable is when the government's actions and powers do not match with the needs of the populace. Those needs can be many different things and can be different things at different times: food, shelter, infrastructure, protection from bad neighbors, protection from invaders... the list would take me a day and a half.
If you look back at the collapse of the USSR, there was a misalignment between the people's needs and what the government gave. If you look at the current USA, the least stable places are where government is deliberately creating friction with the citizens, and close to that are the places where government is not creating a good framework for people's needs to be met.
Corruption can be a symptom of this mismatch, but in and of itself is not the prime reason for instability. Go look at various nation-states throughout history. The unstable governments were and are the ones where a large segment of people felt the government wasn't doing anything to help them with their needs.
“Government in a democracy is essentially a conservative institution. It is responsible for creating and sustaining markets, enforcing contracts, protecting private property, and producing systems of education and infrastructure that allow commerce to function efficiently.”