Cowardice is the beginning of the end for all things good. As often as not, various forms of collective bargaining and the mindset that drives them smother individuality, smother courage. We become just a number by making ourselves just a number.
No amount of goodwill serves any use for the coward. As evidenced by the Twelve Apostles, faith, hope, and love lay dormant until the vigor of the Holy Spirit struck them on Pentecost. Fortitude is the gas that makes all potential good come to pass.
I think that perhaps we tend to mistake boldness for courage. Satan is bold. But true courage displayed is always a loving act, never a ratting out, never about one-upmanship, and certainly not about ganging up. And yet, real courage, when necessarily so, is apostolically bold: the stuff of martyrs.
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