![]() Topic awaiting preservation: Courage (Page 1 of 1) |
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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Czech Republic via Bristol UK |
![]() I was reading through a autobiography the other day and came across the best definition of courage i have ever seen. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Seoul, Korea |
![]() The quote above is along the same lines of how I would define courage, but I think it's way too specific (it appears to have been written to describe that situation). In particular, I don't think courage has to involve a life-threatening situation. In fact, I don't think it has to involve physical safety at all. That would pretty much limit courage to wartime situations, disasters, or the kind of situations you describe. I also don't think courage has to involve helping someone else (more on that below). |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Happy Hunting Grounds... |
![]() I have to agree with Master Suho...that is, indeed, the 'true' definition of Courage. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: The Demented Side of the Fence |
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Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA |
![]() I like your alternate ending to that story =) |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Czech Republic via Bristol UK |
![]() laugh...guess he failed that exam |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Seoul, Korea |
![]() tomeaglescz: Yeah, I understand it was a direct quote... and it also said there are many ways of defining courage. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: under the bed |
![]() in a lot of cases, the fine line between stupidity and courage tends to be defined after the fact, based on the outcome (not that it should be, just saying that it often is). |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Happy Hunting Grounds... |
![]() Courage...well, actually attaching the name to something is dependent on the past...I have never heard of it being used in a future tense. So it does seem to depend on the outcome...and on succeeding, at great odds. Failures are normally regarded as stupidity. Success as Couragous. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: A ripped t-shirt pocket. |
![]() Last school year in English (American Lit), after reading Slaughterhouse Five, of course, we had a discussion about free will. When asked to speak one fellow student said he wouldn't because he was excersizing his free will. The teacher nodded in a slightly sinister but understanding manner. For the second half of the class we wrote an essay on the same topic. The next week the same student recieved his paper back, graded 20 points out of total of 50. When he asked the teacher about this horrible grade, the teacher simply responded that he was excersizing his free will. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: :morF |
![]() Unfortunatley for that teacher, he doesn't have a right to allow his free will to enter in to his grading. It had to be objective, focused totally on the students abilities and not at all on any personal issues he may be having with said student. If he did it as a way of getting back at the student, it was totally unethical and should have cased him to recieve a serious reprimand (along the lines of 'fuck up like this agian and you will lose your teaching license). |