Not everyone is strong enough to wear it. While we may never be perfect, it is the lifelong struggle towards that perfection that makes one great. This is the challenge and the object of accomplishment, that is a part of Bushido training martial arts. This is the same level of character that instructor Isao Takahashi lectured to us over and over again, during my training over 30 years ago. Integrity is important and paramount above all.
Good character is admired, because of the difficulty that it takes to maintain.
He did this openly in front of the students of the dojo. I did promptly disapprove of this visitor's behavior and made sure my objections were communicated when it was a much more polite time to do so. By then, the visitor left and returned home to Europe. Later that year, I had gone to Europe and made a visit to this very same man. The same bravado and self-indulgence.