(#5315) Courage is a virtue!

      I know that being courageous requires sacrifice. I get that. However courage is a value that is multiplied within your life to give you a sense of being human. We are a bold species whose very survival required us to take risks for the sake of survival. We as a species have conquered for the most part our environment and are now the stewards of that environment. What we do with that is now our next mission. We need to not only take what we have gained over the span of our human existence but we have to add to that. Building greater paradigms for all of us to exist within and succeed in living good and promising lives.
     That will take courage as there are those who would not want for all of us to succeed in the better and best of what humanity has to offer. There are too many who feel like they are special beyond the many other of us and fight hard to deny rights and liberties they themselves enjoy. Those are the people we need to find our courage to confront and stop them from bullying the rest of us from having the same dream they would have for themselves. Courage is a choice, not an instinct. We have to gird ourselves with the knowledge that courage is the greater choice when cowardice is also available. I know it isn't easy because we all want to survive but if survival is more obedience to the bully, then bedamned survival in that case.
     Principles for living like honor, respect, duty, personal character, and many others are built upon the courage to defend them when they are under attack. Knowing that democracy demands equality is the first concept we should understand when an attack is being waged. When some would deny democracy to others for no other reason than them being tyrannical then the tyrant needs to be confronted. Equality gives no one the right to take rights away from any one else except for punishments of crimes and only by the rule of law through the will of the majority of people. Courage is a virtue and to protect all our virtues we need to stand up to protect them!