Could you please give me YOUR broadest interpretation of what it means to be brave?

Question

Please Note: I am NOT looking for a dictionary type definition, but your broadest personal interpretation of what it means to be brave. ... Thanks!

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Answer 1

To be brave is to be without internet for 24 hours and survive.

Answer 2

Yes, it means anything you want. Here is what the US Supreme Court said in 1966, a case called Harper v. Virginia Brd of Elec.: "The Equal Protection Clause is not shackled to the political theory of a particular era. In determining what lines are unconstitutionally discriminatory, we have never been confined to historic notions of equality, any more than we have restricted due process to a fixed catalogue of what was at a given time deemed to be the limits of fundamental rights. ... Notions of what constitutes equal treatment for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause *do* change." Oh, they do change, do they? Today the Equal Protection Clause means *this* but tomorrow it can mean *that,* and then the day after tomorrow it will mean something else. There has never been any limit on the meaning of the Equal Protection Clause, and there has never been any limit on the ability to declare that this, that, or another thing are fundamental rights under the Due Process Clause. So, therefore, there is no limit on the Court's ability to strike down laws, is there? And that is what "broad interpretation" means.

Answer 3

To see the universe as it truly is, without illusion or delusion.

To realize that humans are ignornt, and rant and rend for no good reason.

To know that all will fall into random dust, killed by the second law of Kelvin.

To know there is no evidence for anything on the other side, only opalescent hallucinations and infinite oblivion.

And then, to get up in the morning, and face the world.

You could also say that bravery is being afraid of something and doing it anyway, but I thought that would be more poetic.

Answer 4

Bravery is the willingness to voice your opinion and live by your belief though you may be a minority of one in the entire world that holds that belief. If the belief is important enough to warrant it, being willing to die for that belief. But sometimes it is being willing to live in spite of the belief and the necessity of repudiating that belief before the ruling tribunal as in the case of Galileo. After recanting his belief in heliocentrism which the Church considered heretical he was ordered imprisoned. The sentence was later commuted to house arrest and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It was during this time that he wrote one of his finest works, Two New Sciences, a book admired by both Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. As a result of this work, Galileo is often called, the "father of modern physics." So this was a case where bravery was demonstrated by the willingness to live and continue working in the face of adversity and disrepute. Some might call this cowardice but I call it bravery.

Fear may or may not be a factor in bravery. I don't think it is necessarily the determining factor.

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Answer 5

Brave is he who follows the rough path full of hardships and obstacles and yet he keeps his face up and not blinded by the sun.
It is he who wipes the last tear from his face and goes out to walk amid thorns and rocks in order to reach and smell the one and only flower he can touch.

Answer 6

Brave, is when a person can look at themself in the mirror and say,"I am a really good person," and they know for the first time in their life, it's the truth.

Answer 7

Bravery is nothing more than overcoming fear, whether it's the fear of taking risks in business or career or facing the threat of bodily injury. There is no such thing as being fearless.

Answer 8

I don't remember who said it but it's pretty true. Bravery is not the absence of fear but rather there's something that's far more important that needs to be accomplish.

Answer 9

To be brave means to do something that nobody else or very few are willing to do.

Answer 10

To be brave is to do what you must do to be true to your beliefs or to face overwhelming adversity, no matter the personal price to you.