Yes. Brave. Putting yourself in danger without thought to your own physical well being, and making yourself a marked man, on purpose, knowing (or not caring) that you will be marked, is bravery. I'd say bank robbers are also brave. They are criminals, and quite uncaring about human life, but the quality of bravery is not necessarily related to the quality of goodness, definitionally. I think you think that because I don't like anti-abortion protestors I would be swayed by the victims. Bravery isn't about the victims, it's about the quality of the personal action, and personal death defying (or embracing) strategy. I think most people agree Kamikazis (sp?) are/were brave, and I don't think it matters to their bravery, what their targets were.
You seem to want the brave to be good. I don't think the two go together at all (though since all cultures idealize the bravery that their culture finds appealing, I will grant you that for propaganda purposes we often see bravery used as if it were "good"- but that is just pr).
You still don't address the huge US attacks on Japanese civilian populations- is there a reason for that? Was the Us cowardly (in your scheme it would seem they would have to be, since they intentionally attacked civilians)? |
