Physical courage is a knight riding into battle. It’s a firefighter rushing into a burning building. It’s an explorer setting out for the arctic, defying the elements. Moral courage is a whistleblower taking on powerful interests. It’s the truth teller who says what no one else will say. It’s the entrepreneur going into business for themselves, against all odds. The martial courage of the soldier and the mental courage of the scientist. But it doesn’t take a philosopher to see that these are actually the same thing. There aren’t two kinds of courage. There is only one. The kind where you put
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