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Originally Posted by LucrativeSid
Please define courage in your own words.
Tell me what it means to you personally.
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I don't really understand courage. Or rather I've just never experienced or otherwise witnessed it.
I've been called brave/courageous, but I'm not really. I never risk anything I'd care about losing.
For example I'd gamble my own life in a forest fire to finish a game of chess. If I die, so what? I'm dead. I can't care.
The essential difference between me and the people who watch on the sidelines -- the ones calling me brave -- is, I don't care about... anything, so I'm willing to do things that others wouldn't.
I've never seen anyone gamble with something they cared about unless they didn't know they were gambling it.
Basically I don't think courage exists without stupidity and negligence, and in that case, it's still not really courage, it's just blindness.
So courage doesn't exist.
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Do you see it as a great virtue or is it mostly overrated?
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If it does exist, it's only in doing something you fear. If it's a real fear, then either you're choosing the lesser of two evils, or you're an idiot.
If the cost is intelligence, it can't be good so no, I don't value courage.
(That's right: I don't lose a wink of sleep knowing that I'm not courageous.)
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Are there different types of courage?
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Yeah, stupid courage, and the kind where you're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
But like I said, neither of those count.
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Where does courage come from?
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Conventional application of the term leads me to suspect that courage comes from lacking value in maintenance of order.
Like... are we talking about wherefrom in the brain?
You're not wondering about some kind of magic...
thing... that gives us courage, are you?