"Hemingway got close to this when he said "cowardice . . . is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination." Fighting is traumatic, and good fighting requires insensitivity, the ability to "suspend the functioning of the imagination." Guys that get scared are thinking too much, worried about getting hurt, going to jail, getting shot later. The best scappers are existentialists to the core, living for right now. Or are just idiots, unable to grasp abstract future consequences. Whatever the case, all that matters is doing damage to that guy in front of you. "

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