Cowardice, selfishness and dishonor

[philosopher]

Whenever I come across these words:

Cowardice, selfishness, dishonor or slacker, they are always used in a negative context. As if they are always bad.

Personally, I often see them as the quite opposite. Not always, but often they mean something good to me, for a personality to behave as a coward.

It means the person is reasoning. That he/she is not stupid. Stupid is always negative, retarded being the lowest most disgraceful trait ever.

I see no honor in what most people see as honorable; Patriotism, nationalism, "die for your country" - it is all bullshit to me, it means nothing to me, at best. In my opinion, nationalists are retarded.

The draft is the worst obligation a country can enforce on its people. No, wait, all kinds of work duties (jury duty, labor duty, conscription - you name them) are all equal to oppression of the INDIVIDUAL. One should have the right to pursue one's own happiness and meaning in life so long they do not directly pose a threat to others!

Refusal to do any kind of work, including refusal to military service or alternative civilian service as part of the draft, does not pose any DIRECT threat.
Therefore it should be legal to refuse any kind of work, nobody should be punished for not working!

There's a cliché that says: "If everybody think/do like you..." - then what? I believe we would have a WAAAAY better society without war. Because cowardice in combination with laziness would mean NO WARS - people are too lazy for that!

Isn't that a good thing?

Another thing is, people often say I only got my freedom because of the WW2 won by allied forces made of conscripts dying for freedom...

Well, if we're going to talk about the past and the peoples in the past, let's talk about the past, shall we?

If there had not been some stupid people believing in national honor, bravery and other foolish beliefs in the 1930's Germany, there would be no nazis!
"History is as history is. It is reality" - yet another cliché. Yeah, history is history it is what it is. The present being present and is what it is. What has this to do with anything? You got to decide, you want to talk about the past or the present? Reality or wishes? People seem to talk about reality when it is most convenient when the talk about the past gets too uncomfortable and vice-versa!

A brave person is a stupid person.
A person who values national honor above individual dignity, is an idiot.
A coward is a thinking, rational individual of sound mind!

[Necromancer]

I just note that to be a coward may be seen as (Kantian) unethical.

There are sound reasons for not taking actions many times, but this is not cowardice.

Equally, being brave means doing something extra toward a noble goal in line with (Kantian) ethics and morality.

To do bravery is not to become a monster. If one becomes a monster, the "bravery" has not be warranted.

There are several versions of Nationalism, the American one, the Chinese one (Nationalists) and the Nazi-German one, see NSDAP Nazional-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (The National Socialistic German Labour Party).