"Frankly, I had enjoyed the war"

[Sergeant Pluck]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart

[Peter]

Pluck, that is incredible!  All those wounds and then to break his back!  Depressing, however, that even when he had chance for a peaceful life he continued killing things.  A very singular person of undoubted courage - or psychopathic, I can't make up my mind.

[mrcharly-YHT]

I suspect he wasn't 'brave', as he seemed to have no sense of the need for self-preservation or the value of life of anything.

Superb soldier, disaster as a social human being.

[bobb]

What does brave mean then?

I suspect someone with an agreeable personality is labelled "brave". If not, they're demoted to "having no regard for their personal safety"....

[mrcharly-YHT]

To me 'brave' means doing something even though you are scared.

I'm not scared of spiders. Quite happily pick them up and let them run around on my hand. My stepdaughter is terrified of them.
For me to pick up a spider and take it out of the house isn't brave. It certainly is for her.

[Psychler]

To me 'brave' means doing something even though you are scared.

I'm not scared of spiders. Quite happily pick them up and let them run around on my hand. My stepdaughter is terrified of them.
For me to pick up a spider and take it out of the house isn't brave. It certainly is for her.

Have you no regard for your personal safety?