We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, the Enemy permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. – C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters.
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Indeed.
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Mew
I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around someone willing (nay, eager!) to embrace certain death in an obviously futile attempt to run away, but who was not willing to defend their hearth and home from the threat.
Obviously, it’s happening.
But I cannot understand the worldview.
But
Panic and despair wreak havoc on the mind..