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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (46717)1/27/2008 8:23:57 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541842
 
I do see bravery as a good thing in isolation.

Of course its never really in isolation, and bravery in the service of an evil cause is a net bad, just as skill in serving an evil cause is a net bad even though both skill and bravery are good things.

But getting back to the terrorists, is suicide really brave? Is attacking the nearly defenseless brave? My answer to both would be no.

And to the extent there was any bravery by the terrorists on 9/11 it was purely physical bravery, they didn't have the "intellectual bravery" (is that a new term?) to face the open competition of ideas, and to the extent they had any doubt at all that their mission was the right thing to do, they didn't have the moral courage to call a stop to it.

I suppose you could say the terrorists where brave in certain ways, and cowardly in certain ways. Or you could just say that that the issue of their bravery isn't simple.
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