Courage

Ignorance can be misinterpreted as courage. Does that matter? I don't know.

I do know that courage is doing something you are afraid of. Otherwise it doesn't require courage.

But ignorance causes all sorts of problems.

People plunge in and do things because their gut tells them too, or because they are reacting to some kind of stimulus. If the cause is deemed worthy the world calls them heroes and claims they are courageous, which they may be.

But on some level there are a lot of things that occur this way that are neither worthy, nor heroic, and only if they succeed are they called courageous. Otherwise they are labeled foolish, or stupid.

Ignorance creates so many problems that could be averted if only people stopped and thought and chose to recognize and understand the consequences of their actions before they reacted. But that takes real courage.