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Do you consider yourself brave? What does bravery mean to you?

bravery, to my mind, involves a choice to take on personal risk that could have been averted - like you could stand in front of the burning building and hope for the best, or you can run in and try to save someone... hey one time I got yelled at because I said some pilot who crash-landed his plane in the river and kept eveybody alive wasn't brave - he didn't have a choice! He was saving himself! Not that he did a bad thing, it just didn't require bravery that's all

Nah.

To me, 'brave' is a badge we slap on people to make the fact that we're not gonna help them sound more noble.

I don't know if I'm brave. I've done extremely brave things in the past, but in general I'm not brave enough to overcome my shyness and make it. Bravery means doing something you're afraid of (that you deem isn't actually objectively stupid) because you know it's important. It may even be / especially if it's something risky/dangerous but it's about something important enough to take the risk. I guess the bravest thing you can do is give your life for a person in danger, or a cause or whatever.

Brave to me is doing things you are personally scared of doing. I went sky diving, some may say that’s brave. But I was never scared so it wasn’t. There’s something I would like to do and am scared to do so maybe if I do that then I’ll think I’ve been a bit brave.

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