Going back to this comic. The title is Take the Tightrope. The question is, what is courage? How can the person taking the tightrope know whether it is courage or stupid or insanity? Or is it that courage is having the belief to do what others may think is completely insane or stupid.
In my humble opinion, courage is when a person is willing to act in spite of their fear. They are not held captive by their fear but are instead controlling it.
Fear is not the same nor a replacement for common sense or reason. So failure to act due to common sense is not the same as failure to act because of fear.
Interesting.
To me, Courage, you have strength to do something you don’t feel comfortable with.
Foolhardy, you move forward knowing it’s not a good thing.