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Re:British divers make contact with missing Thai football team by prmph on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @12:07PM (#17451314)
See, no matter how skilled and careful you are, some necessary activities are more dangerous than watching paint dry. And courage/bravery is what motivates you to tackle these activities, in spite of your knowledge of their inherent danger.

Yes, skill is required, but actually skill is associated with courage; it is the skill that enables you to assess just how dangerous the activity might be, but it is courage that motivates you to undertake it, in spite of your knowing that no amount of skill can make it every-day-level safe

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Re:British divers make contact with missing Thai football team by scarejunba on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @12:25PM (#17451492)
This whole argument ranks as one of the silliest things I've ever seen.
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Re:British divers make contact with missing Thai football team by jacquesm on Friday July 06, 2018 @05:17AM (#17470021)
No kidding. You can be as prepared as they come and as fit as they come and still face a dangerous situation knowing that someone else's life is on the line going in to risk your own. If that does not qualify as brave I don't know what does.
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