[1010RD]

I wouldn’t call them stupid. Fear is a natural reaction. Of course, courage is not the absence of fear, but the control of it.

It takes real courage to invest against the herd and logic is not a natural human trait. You have to be trained to it and some are more attuned than others.

If it were not so, who would be inspired by Kipling?

[JasonC]

Yes it is a natural reaction. Nowhere is it written that the naturalness of a behavior and its stupidity are incompatible. Natural stupidity is, indeed, the natural state of man. Also solitary, poor, nasty brutish and short.