Posted on 09/15/2025 12:07:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I talked to a friend recently about courage, and he made what I thought was a really profound point worth thinking about in depth: Not all courage is the same. For example, there is moral courage and physical courage.
Physical courage is the soldier who braves the hail of bullets to complete his mission or to save his brother-in-arms. It is the fireman who risks his life to run into a burning building to save people who might otherwise die without his help. It is the mother who instinctively shields her child from danger using her own body.
Physical courage is generally the type of courage we reward in modern society because it is so obvious and visceral. It is easy to see and easy to depict. We know physical courage when we see it, and we also know physical cowardice when we see it.
But there is another type of courage that we don’t often recognize and praise, and that is moral courage. Moral courage is hard to depict in a mural or a statue. A monument to men planting a flag at Iwo Jima just seems more dramatic than someone calmly standing up and speaking the truth at a school board meeting, or telling a friend his behavior is ungodly, or internally vowing to no longer silently abide the lies of a culture that tells you boys can become girls or unborn babies aren’t people.
Many of us may simply never have the opportunity to demonstrate physical courage or cowardice. That’s one reason it’s so important to praise the physically courageous, in the hope that it would condition all of us to not cower in fear if and when we are ever placed into that crucible.
It’s easy to say, “Oh, I definitely would’ve stepped in to...”
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His moral courage was OUTREACH... He looked past the differences with compassion and tolerance. He tried to bridge gaps and find common ground.
There is absolutely no one here willing to get past their extremism, prejudice, and hate to do that same. So no one here will ever have that same moral courage.
The few of us who do try are stoned and burned at the stake for not being radicalized and extreme up to pure acceptable standards...
So because of this realty, all his efforts will be in vain.
You do not get the last word.
You are the opposite of Charlie Kirk.
Speak (or more precisely, stay muted) for yourself.
I will not give in.
I will not give up.
many patriots displayed the ‘moral’ side of courage, when they—with great discernment—fought the jabs and covid lock downs, often at great personal and professional cost. the pressure to conform became immense. i continue to thank and laud them all.
OK, fine... Play right into the hands of the global elites who created this division to keep us on a leash and controlled so that they can steal your country from you.
“Speak (or more precisely, stay muted) for yourself.”
Follow lock step, do not go outside the lines of the herd, or STFU? Now what exactly is the difference between that and what the communists are doing to us???
So you are saying that because Kirk was willing to outreach and allow voices from the other side he was wrong and should be treated as a STFU traitor like you just did me???
Even though what he was doing was working??? We want to fix this country but we do not want to ever taint the pureness by trying to sway minds through common courtesy and tolerance?
Kirk was a great mind and extremely successful activist because he DID NOT let the purism and extremism dictate his outreach...
https://rumble.com/v6yzc7i-14-year-old-boy-blows-away-ravs-ben-bergquam-with-powerful-words-about-char.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_a
This was a rather touching video of 14 year old young man when he was in the line going to the prayer vigil....Charlie Kirk was his idol....
He was ambitious and strategic as much as morally courageous, all over the place debater who played the Jesus card to get out of a tight spot but a world renowned activist and leader. So his efforts won’t be in vain (maybe if he had stayed a never Trumper...:).
His cause was righteous and moral. He called out wrong no matter where it came from and no matter the source. He praised righteousness when it was warranted.
Morally this is how it should be. Wrong is wrong, right is right. No one has immunity or a get out of jail free card from morality because of affiliation.
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more they will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell
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