Comment Re:"bravely"? (Score 1) 332
Tammie Jo Shults is the pilot who bravely flew Southwest Flight 1380 to safety after part of its left engine ripped off
So what would have been the cowardly variant? Crashing the plane?
Adjectives have meaning. I mean, I'm glad that part of its left engine hasn't "tragically" ripped off since nowadays everything unfortunate or awful is "tragic". But what the fuck is "brave" about saving your beans? "In an extraordinary display of skills, presence of mind and composure": yeah.
There are a fuckload of reasons to admire her feat. Braveness isn't one.
You know what word also has meaning?
The word "Dictionary"
Bravery : The quality or state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty : the quality or state of being brave : courage showing bravery under fire
So I got a question for you:
Who died and made you God? Because the last I checked, people did have a right to call this stuff bravery.
However, this doesn't surprise me. We live in a society where anybody can criticize another person without knowing jack shit about them or what it took to do what they did either mentally or physically. They don't have a leg to stand on. So they find the most pedestrian thing to criticize.
Also the fact this was posted by an AC is just richly ironic.