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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (47055)1/28/2008 12:49:03 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541791
 
Putting yourself through great difficulty and great risk when you want to live is brave. Killing yourself, even for a cause, might just be a way out.

Some of the 9/11 terrorists apparently didn't know that the planes where going to be crashed in to buildings. It could be said they where less brave (their knowledge of how unlikely it was for them to live was less), or more (they didn't know that their actions would be a quick out, only that the actions would be risky).

Those who kill themselves for a cause, esp. if they aren't just looking for a way out but would really rather live, could be called "self-sacrificing" (even when the cause they sacrifice themselves for is odious, or the actions don't help the cause, or the help the actions give the cause doesn't justify the actions). But brave is a little less certain, partially (but not only) because we can't know the thoughts of the suicide attackers).
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