What is courage?

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Permalink Reply by Edward Teach on July 19, 2012 at 6:21am

I disagree with the definition above. I would say that courage is acting in spite of fear, rather than without fear. It takes no courage at all to deal with a situation that does not inspire fear.

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on July 19, 2012 at 10:42am

I agree with you. 

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on July 19, 2012 at 10:48am

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)
-- Robert A. Heinlein

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Permalink Reply by Secular Forces 2013 on July 19, 2012 at 3:39pm

wen yer blacklisted bt keep going..
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Permalink Reply by DarkBlack on July 21, 2012 at 5:39pm

I agree, being blind to fear is not courage.

Does courage have to be for a "good" cause?

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Permalink Reply by Napoleon Bonaparte on July 21, 2012 at 6:14pm

La bravoure procède du sang, le courage vient de la pensée.

Napoleon Bonaparte 

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Permalink Reply by Alan Carter on August 16, 2012 at 2:34pm

Off with their heads

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Permalink Reply by booklover on July 21, 2012 at 7:09pm

Courage is letting your now 18 and 20 year olds go out into the world without you, knowing you've done your very best with them. (And then not calling them 20x a day which could, technically, be considered stalking them to make sure they're okay ;)

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Permalink Reply by Ted Foureagles on July 21, 2012 at 9:23pm

"Does courage have to be for a "good" cause?"

Good question (pun unintended).  Of course it begs the usual questions of definition -- what is courage; what is good?  Is "good" what is good for some definition of larger society, or for the individual actor, or a particular gene sequence?  Is "courage" acceptance of personal risk altruistically, or is it adherance to personal values in opposition to social opinion?  Is courage a component necessary for someone to fly airplanes into buildings or blow themselves up on a bus?  How about if it's jumping out of a trench and running across withering fire to toss a grenade into the enemy trench?

I'd say that we could define courage, hard as that is, far easier than we could define good.

 

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on July 21, 2012 at 9:45pm

Were there courageous Nazis or KGB agents?  Certainly, those who might qualify for their actions for their cause would have thought so at the time.  "Good," like too many other things, is in the eye of the beholder.

I suppose the question could be begged as to how many people, regardless of their party affiliation, benefited from those actions, versus who stood to lose from those same actions

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Permalink Reply by Alan Carter on August 16, 2012 at 2:47pm

Certainly ...blind belief in a system has to be fought for ....... the human mind is in a constant state of confusion unsure of what is best

its the psychopath who rule who controls  directs who lies ...all are thugs some in ermine with lots of Bling and educated smart suit nice tie ......some in rags

the term GOOD is not in their vocabulary 

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Permalink Reply by Alan Carter on August 16, 2012 at 2:32pm

Too much time on his hands..idle hands and all that

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