cowardice is an inability to defend one's beliefs when one is clearly aware that their beliefs are different than that of the majority or status quo (if they actually do believe the same as what we are led to be is the majority, then that is ignorance...but to know better and still go along with everything...that is cowardice)
of course beliefs could be changed to anything that can be defended in a personal and public light when the personal and the public conflict with one another.
Cowardice is the deliberate decision to not do what is right (whether that is defined by your own personal standards/morals or those of a group) because of a total fear of the consequenses or results of what that action might be. A coward is someone who ~could~ have been couragous (whether that be by saving someone's life, speaking out for what they feel is just, or merely just admitting error), but instead that person knowingly chose the easy and weak path.
I tried not to read anyone else's comments before I posted mine.
I think that a coward is essentially someone who doesn't SPEAK UP (or act, as the case may be). A coward is someone who wants to say or do something and DOESN'T. By the time a coward has decided to do so, the opportunity is passed (that is, IF the coward EVER DOES decide to).
As for the SPEAKING UP (or acting): it can be for ANY cause. It can be morally related, it can be simply voicing an opinion (or a preference). It can be choosing where to eat for lunch.
We all have MOMENTS where we don't speak up and should have (or do speak up and should have shut the fuck up). But a coward is one who habitually, chronically cannot do for self.
Oh, and a coward will often go with the crowd, give in to peer pressure. A coward is not a strong personality, and often RESENTS those who do have one (out of jealousy, maybe)?
These are all generalizations, but they're generalizations for a REASON. Any person that I could classify as a coward qualifies as all of the above.
I found you!callingtodeepSeptember 9 2007, 16:41:03 UTC
You would be asking a deep question. I just stopped by to say hi, for Pete's sake! haha. Anyway. In thinking very briefly about the subject, I think that cowardice is something that may or may not be easily defined or recognized. For instance, what is cowardice to me may not be cowardice to you. Cowardice, then, I suppose, is ... A conscious decision for inaction in an action or cause that you are perfectly capable of acting in, but don't. Cowardice is usually motivated by fear. Possibly always, but my mind hasn't probed that far yet. So ... there are some things which are usually cowardice for most people - such as saving your own skin from the truck hurtling at you, and not the baby at your feet. But there are many things which are may or may not be cowardly depending on the person doing the action.
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of course beliefs could be changed to anything that can be defended in a personal and public light when the personal and the public conflict with one another.
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I think that a coward is essentially someone who doesn't SPEAK UP (or act, as the case may be). A coward is someone who wants to say or do something and DOESN'T. By the time a coward has decided to do so, the opportunity is passed (that is, IF the coward EVER DOES decide to).
As for the SPEAKING UP (or acting): it can be for ANY cause. It can be morally related, it can be simply voicing an opinion (or a preference). It can be choosing where to eat for lunch.
We all have MOMENTS where we don't speak up and should have (or do speak up and should have shut the fuck up). But a coward is one who habitually, chronically cannot do for self.
Oh, and a coward will often go with the crowd, give in to peer pressure.
A coward is not a strong personality, and often RESENTS those who do have one (out of jealousy, maybe)?
These are all generalizations, but they're generalizations for a REASON. Any person that I could classify as a coward qualifies as all of the above.
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