Ha! The noble view becomes even more so. Surely you realize it can't always be handled that way? That's something many kingdoms would gladly take advantage of.

[Wait, he's not done, because that kind of goody-two-shoes attitude has always bugged him, and now he's finally gotten a chance to speak his mind about it to someone other than the damn hawk king. That's not to say he's trying to be difficult, he just thinks that's an incredibly naive standpoint. Being nice all the time! Who could imagine??]

Alright. Forget about my world for a moment, as I'm assuming it's the same in yours. Beorc choose their royalty by birth, yes? By class? [It's worded rhetorically, as he's pretty sure already knows the answer.] They're taught to be exceptionally kind to another country's noblemen simply because they had the luck to be born into aristocracy. Throw one bad egg into the family and suddenly you're paying respects to someone one day who might try to brutally annex your kingdom the next. It doesn't make sense. Respect isn't earned, it's automatically given.