Legal statutes are written, codified, meant to be applied uniformly—warriors’ codes are lived, interpreted, and often bent on the battlefield. You can compare them in terms of principles, but the same analytical tools that read a statute’s literal wording fall apart when you try to apply them to a sword‑clad ethic that shifts with context. So yes, you can use the lens, but you’ll need a different filter to capture the nuances.

Exactly. Scrutinize the words, but remember a warrior’s code is as much about the moment’s choice as it is about the creed. The law can lay the scaffolding; the battlefield fills the gaps.