Brains or Balls

[Saeros]

I think you're making a fundamental error in your reasoning. Brave people can't be intelligent? Intelligent people can't be brave? Are courage and intelligence really so mutually exclusive as we would be inclined to believe? There are plenty of people who are courageous and extremely intelligent.

Given only the two options that you provided, however, i would choose, inexorably, "brave and dumbish".

 

[Kokoro]

Finally went with smart and cowardly. I really dislike both for the reasons already outlined by others. The final tipping point for me was the matter of control. Being dumbed down would increase the possibility of being manipulated/deceived just enough to make it not an option, for me(who knows where my bravado would be directed?). Plus, as stated, intelligence(if that is what is inferred from "smart") would be much more able to overcome the downfalls of cowardice. I don't see many ways that bravery can help overcome "dumbishness."

 

[Words]

As I have been recently having problems regarding meaning and motivation, I have chosen the option that allowed me to "leap" further.

The one who knows can only regret. The other made something fulfilling: a choice.

Then again, is it smart to be cowardly?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Doing idiotic things until one day you have an epiphany = Dumb Luck
Avoiding everything dangerous until one day you save someone's life = Hero

I'd rather be the hero.

 

[AlisaD]

I think you're making a fundamental error in your reasoning. Brave people can't be intelligent? Intelligent people can't be brave? Are courage and intelligence really so mutually exclusive as we would be inclined to believe? There are plenty of people who are courageous and extremely intelligent.

Given only the two options that you provided, however, i would choose, inexorably, "brave and dumbish".

I realize that you can be both smart and brave, but if I made a poll on weather you'd rather be smart and brave or dumb and cowardly, it wouldn't be much of a brainer, would it

I appreciate you making a choice, though, and love the fact that you choose the option you did

 

[Philosophyking87]

I would've thought more INTP's would've chosen the first one...
I guess some are a little less intuitive and introverted than most INTP's.
ES types seem to value ALL BALLS AND GLORY type stuff.

 

[Cognisant]

Cowardly people can still do brave things, it's all a matter of being more afraid of something else than the repercussions of whatever they're doing, e.g. the daring antics of Jack Sparrow, who by the end of the trilogy is revealed to be powerfully motivated by fatalistic terror, he does incredibly dangerous stuff because he's fighting to survive.

In the pursuit of immortality, what is there to lose?

 

[Philosophyking87]

NT's would naturally gravitate towards cowardly+smart then right? Or perhaps my assumptions are unfounded >.>

No, no, no. I think INT's would gravitate towards cowardice.
ENTP's and ENTJ's tend to be very bold and courageous, all about domination and glory. ENTP's are wild and rebellious, while ENTJ's tend be general type figures who command entire armies.

 

[s0nystyle]

I wouldn't expect so, I'd guess the split would be reasonably close in preference, however INTs may lean towards preferring smart, and ENTs may lean towards preferring brave.

<--- ENTP

i chose smart+cowardly

a smart man makes calculated risks, which may appear cowardly, but makes all the difference

 

[ApostateAbe]

I don't see much of a difference between smart and cowardly, nor much of a difference between brave and dumb, so it was an easy decision. Sounds bizarre coming from someone who does all of the "ballsy" things that I have done, but that is only because I have different arrangement of priorities.

 

[bumsyspin]

NT's would naturally gravitate towards cowardly+smart then right? Or perhaps my assumptions are unfounded >.>

Depends on self esteem and envy.

 

[Hammett]

Depends on self esteem and envy.

How do you figure?