so ironically in this framing courage comes from lack of hope
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the belief that things will never get better on their own, or even stay at their current level
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Cowardice is itself a form of hope - hope that someone else will save you, that there will be someplace to run
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Sun Tzu said it's very very dangerous, if you're winning, to take all forms of escape away
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you are, essentially, making cowardice an untenable choice and when you do that people surprise you
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the Empire in SW keeps making that mistake
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I think that's part of the theme, is that the good guys' weakness comes from not really understanding the bad guys
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that Empire thinking is not rational or human, that it just keeps demanding more without ever being sated
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and the hope in that, is that even the most seemingly weak or passive people get pushed too far
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it's the Treebeard scene in LotR
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the bad guys so busy fouling and conquering everything in reach they piss off a faction they forgot existed
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Well that's the thing. I'm a fucking milquetoast center left hewing liberal who's terrified.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I don't yet actively fear for my life, but the fact that "willl there be camps and what groups will go first" >
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