Courage is 1) Recognizing a danger to yourself 2) Making a rational decision to take that danger upon yourself 3) Because you have a moral duty to put other people's welfare above your own
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Recklessness is 1) Ignoring or refusing to acknowledge danger 2) Because that knowledge would stand in the way of an unexamined emotional impulse 3) To do something you selfishly feel like doing that gives you pleasure without regard for others
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I just want to be very clear that being "afraid of looking like a pussy" is very much the emotion of fear, even if you try to call it something else And giving into it is abject, selfish cowardice The most pathetic and contemptible form of cowardice
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Your fucking ego and your self-image as a badass is the least important thing in the universe and sacrificing anything of material value to it - much less a human life, much less the lives of vulnerable strangers - makes you the weakest, lowest little shitstain imaginable
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Can we help people see recklessness in the current context as just lazy selfishness, or is that not going to work?
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Exhibit A: Gryffindors (definitely more reckless than brave)
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Louder for the people at the back. And everywhere else tbh
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Well... Not exactly sure if I agree with this whole assessment. I would think it would require a lot of courage to be reckless. Or would that kind of recklessness be defined by another word? Maybe there's 2 types of reckless? (thinking out loud here)
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I have this conversation with my students when we read Number the Stars. It’s interesting to watch the dawning realization that courageous doesn’t mean “not afraid”.
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