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Khorne is the pinnacle of what a honorable warrior can achieve, he is also the polar opposite of what a warrior can become, he is the amalgamation of all violence and feelings of every combatant in all realities, so some societies may believe in pure bloodletting and other that killing woman and children is wrong and as such his minions will act accordingly, just because we don't see it in the 40k novels doesn't mean it doesn't happen, if you only look at the codex fluff then all the pantheon are one sided, read all the extended fluff and the liber chaotica books and you will get a better understanding of what is a cruelly great concept gw has stumbled upon

There are representations of honourable khornite followers, ones who can and do control the rage inside them, these mostly come from the writers who understand that all chaos isn't "eat a baby for breakfast, go do some killing, eat another baby".

The people that live in the eye and other chaos planets have a culture, economy, diplomacy (of a kind) and are just as much an empire as the imperials, elder etc. It's just chaotic and while some are utter anarchy others are well run and organised.

Take a look at any of adb's or abnets work on the subject and you can see there is a hell of alot more going on with chaos as a whole than what the limited blurbs in the codexs suggest.

I'D even go as far as saying that the codex writers these days haven't got a clue how chaos works as a concept, I'd bet pennies to pounds that most of us on here know more of the subject than most of them.