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Which is better for Survival.

Being a coward or being Brave?

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>> No.2636992
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2636992

coward
encourage others to be brave

>> No.2636996

"he who fights and runs away shall live to fight another day"
in other words, cowardice is optimal for survival. bravery, on the other hand, is optimal for getting your ass killed

>> No.2637001

>>2636996
"he whore dares wins" faggot

>> No.2637002

Brave in the real world. Coward in 'reality'.

Brave is the best way to go either way, just you're not likely to survive in your current vessel being brave in 'reality.

>> No.2637022

coward for survival.
brave for spreading your genes, women love bravery.

>> No.2637045

>you are challenged for your food
>Cowardice
>you starve

>you are challenged for a mate
>Cowardice
>you dont spread your genes

>You are challenged in general
>Cowardice
>you are socially rejected

>> No.2637065

it's not about bravery or cowardize but about efficiency

>> No.2637068

>>2637045
Could do the same for situations in which bravery would get you killed

>> No.2637069

It depends on what you mean by "brave" and "coward."

In my mind, cowardice is when fear prevents you from doing what you rationally believe you should, while bravery is doing what you rationally believe you should despite fear. Unless what you believe you should do is inherently bad for survival (charging a machine gun, for example), then bravery is better.

>> No.2637074

a lion is about to attack you. do you bravely defend your self with your bear hands, or do you cowardly climb a tree.

>> No.2637075

Like everything else in life, it's about a proper balance of both. In some situations being a coward will be better for you, in others being brave will.

Extremes of either are just as bad.

>> No.2637084

Bravery is the best strategy if you are 100% sure you are the top dog. If you are brave facing a guy who could kill you, it's game over.

Cowardice is the best strategy otherwise.

Of course, cowardice plus cooperative vengeance wins every time.

>> No.2637085

If you backed down to a fight you are sure will kill you, are you a coward?

You need a balance of both, If you're too much of a coward to take chances you're going to fail, If you're too brave to know your limits then you're an idiot.

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>>2637074
>do you bravely defend your self with your bear hands

If I had bear hands, I'd beat the fuck out of that Lion

>> No.2637094

>>2637092
lol'd

>> No.2637098

>>2637069

You've won by definitions, then.

Some people would consider bravery to be acting regardless of the personal consequences, which you would consider foolishness. While others would consider retreat or submission to be the most rational course of action despite your fear of it's consequences, which you would consider bravery, by those definitions.

OP couldn't really be asking which is better, doing the rational thing or doing the irrational thing? He must be asking which is better, doing the aggressive/dominant thing or doing the passive/submissive thing?

>> No.2637099

>>2637084
But if you are 100% sure you're the top dog then you're not brave. Being brave isn't being fearless it's being afraid and acting anyways.

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>>2637092
I could defend myself, im American so i have the right to bear arms.

>> No.2637114

There is confusion, because a lot of people think "cowardice" means taking the safe route and "bravery" means being reckless.

In reality, bravery is the middle ground, in which you are able to act rationally despite fear. If you are swayed to irrational actions by fear, that is cowardice. If you are swayed to irrational actions by testosterone or whatever, that is reckless. Just doing something more dangerous does not make you more brave.

>> No.2637115

>>2637099

Okay, what I should have said was; brave is only the best strategy if you actually are the top dog. Otherwise you'll eventually face the guy who actually is above you in rankings, and you won't back down when you should.

>> No.2637121

>>2637100
Well played...

>> No.2637123

Being yourself, seeing as you have been naturally selected for as being the best equipped to survive.