Characterizing the Rabois incident as a case of individual courage in the face of a witch hunt, they write, "His demonstration directly challenged one of the most fundamental taboos: To suggest a correlation between homosexual acts and AIDS implies that one of the multiculturalists' favorite lifestyles is more prone to contracting the disease and that not all lifestyles are equally desirable".
"… I have a difficulty in seeing that type of courage" (Govt).
Well: we must suppose that he really believes this BS, because if it were a case of bolstering the courage of his troops with falsehoods (as they are) that he knew to be such, it would be as dishonest and dishonourable a thing as one could imagine.
In the case of Greece the "courage" is coming from the people and not their government.
In "The King's Speech," George VI rises to the occasion of history, which in his case takes a private sort of courage.
The Kurds in Kobani are a simple case of physical and moral courage on behalf of common decency.
"In the case of the Profiles in Courage awards, she's made it clear in recent years that she doesn't always want us to recognize people who are political losers," John Shattuck, the C.E.O. of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, says.
In the Hippocratic text Airs, Waters, Places, the soul is thought of as the place of courage or, as the case may be, its opposite: in the case of lowland inhabitants, courage and endurance are not in their souls by nature, but must be instilled by law (ch. 23); similarly in benign climates, men are fleshy, ill-jointed, moist, without endurance and weak in soul (ch. 24).
But in life, in the vast majority of cases, courage does not work that way.
A case of eternal optimism or just lack of courage?
