Sunday, February 15, 2015

Why Courage Is Necessary for Happiness

I have written before that fear is the solvent of the happy society.

It came to me today that courage is a necessary virtue for happiness, because every kind of fear makes us unhappy.

3 comments:

Barry said...

It seems that fear and greed are dominant drivers of human behavior, and most often neither lead to happiness. Speaking of fear, a church in my community cancelled all sevices on sunday the day before the snow storm because of fear of the future snow

ceemac said...

Don't we live in a culture where many people are craving a reason to be afraid.

I live in Dallas. During last year's Ebola episode it seemed clear to me that a lot of folks were looking for an excuse to panic.

By the way it was interesting reading a blog post from 2005. Back when blogging was cutting edge social media.

Gruntled said...

Ceemac: Yes, many people do seem to be susceptible to fear. About the Ebola panic, I noted (and predicted) that one network in particular would stoke that fear, right up to Election Day. Strangely, they lost interest the day after.