If you ask me, honor has changed definitions. The trick question's true answer is to avoid stupid, dumb, and unnecessary bullshit, and unless a situation really will not only undermine you but everyone else's dignity as human beings very soon, just move on with your life. If you want to honor yourself and/or anyone else you know, go and live and ignore stupid things. Life tends to be the great equalizer and judge of things; death is an easy way out.
Even samurai back in the day allowed people to apologize if they accidentally ran into them or said something faux pas or something or other, and anyone of their ranks sane and rational enough to live tended to avoid shitheels as much as possible unless they were really asking for it.