Stupidity -- Bravery

[More Fun To Compute]

Bravery in Darwinian terms is when you are willing to lay down your own life so your genes live on in your close relatives. Stupidity is throwing your life away for no reason or killing your family.

I heard that people who are likely to do things like jump on a grenade are often people who had a lot of family responsibility at a young age. Like self sacrifice has been programmed into them.

 

[Twad]

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There is a line between most things... I wish to discuss today, the line between bravery and stupidity.

There was the story of a man who dove on a grenade with his helmet in order to save his fellow troops.

Now I don't know if this is true or not, but use it as an example...

Is this brave, stupid or both? Where do you think the line between bravery and stupidity ends? and tell us some of the bravest stories you've heard.

EDIT: My point was that putting your own life on the line was stupid, I know it's incredibly brave (and heroic) but it is also against the human urge to survive.

Well..
Depends on the end result.
If you succeed; it was bravery.
If you fail, it was brave AND stupid, posthumously.

Did you see the episode of Mythbuster on that very subject?

 

[FalloutJack]

I believe it was a distinguished general of the Sontaron armada ("Sontar-HAH!") who said that the bravery of idiots was bravery still.

 

[Kurokami]

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There is a line between most things... I wish to discuss today, the line between bravery and stupidity.

There was the story of a man who dove on a grenade with his helmet in order to save his fellow troops.

Now I don't know if this is true or not, but use it as an example...

Is this brave, stupid or both? Where do you think the line between bravery and stupidity ends? and tell us some of the bravest stories you've heard.

EDIT: My point was that putting your own life on the line was stupid, I know it's incredibly brave (and heroic) but it is also against the human urge to survive.

Depends, if you're gonna die anyway then its bravery, actually I think regardless its bravery, the only time for me it borders on plain stupidity is if you definitely end your life for a small chance that it would save someone else. Context is a powerful thing though.