The Honest Truth to Cowardice

Why do people act cowardly?

People behave cowardly if an all out offensive attack fails. It is a way to assert yourself as someone you aren’t, a fascade of courage and strength when in truth there is only a constant avoidance of reality. Life isn’t black and white, courage isn’t always good, cowardice isn’t always bad, sometimes you need to act cowardly to maintain your sanity, and if you can rationalize your behavior you live to fight again another day. Sometimes you should be brave, if you have an opportunity to gain something for yourself and your community, sometimes its best to keep your head down and to not rock the boat.

Is there truth to lies?

Lies is a difficult thing to support, but in truth there is a lot of small things that we do daily which are a form of lying. It might be something as severe as not dealing with someone if you get the sense that they are going to endanger your life in any way, or something as small as not being rude about how awful your mother chicken pot was. We do a lot of things to keep the peace and to just get through the day without any major incidents. Sometimes you lie about your intentions, sometimes you lie through your action when you feel like hurting someone. It’s complicated, but lying is something most people do, and the people who don’t are seen as unrepentant psychopaths.

How do you achieve your goals if you are cowardly?

You can go through life being cowardly in a lot of situations, and have one moment of bravery that changes things. You can also go through life being extremely brave, and a few moments of extreme cowardice brings you to your knees. Cowardice doesnt directly affect your life in any strong way, it makes sense to be this way. You get stuff done, without dealing with the big systematic oppression, racism, hatred, delusion and ignorance. Theres a lot of big problems in the world and a brave person would face them head on, but the purpose of Machiavellian strategy is to not face problems that are bigger than you head on but to keep your head down until you have a good opportnuity.

Keep on fighting the good fight

Keep on going about your day, dealing with situations and find some solace in the fact that no one is perfect. Everyone has something in their life they have done that could be viewed as both cowardly and brave. It might be brave for the socially anxious person to go to a party and talk to people, and it might be cowardly for the MMA fighter to post pone a fight with a potential contender so he can train until he feels comfortable. Life is somewhere in between.

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