"Courage" is one of those strange words. It is an entirely positive word, while "cowardice" is simply bad. And none of them is superseded in our judgement by "common sense".
"He is really courageous." Wow! That is great guy!
"He is a real coward." I definitely don't want anything to do with him.
"He has a lot of common sense." Eh... yes... And so what?
This is because courage is a meme. It is good for society as a whole if some people are mad enough to rush into half lost fights. If one out of two survives and the gain is substantial, society wins.
So a society which cultivates "courage" as something positive will thrive.
But a society that simply admires boring things like common sense will die of lethargy.
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