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Daniel Dennett

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

Daniel Dennett

Courage

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Daniel Dennett is saying that we should embrace the bravery we admire in heroes, especially the bravery to accept some dangers in order to keep society free. He points out that the amount of risk we must accept today is much greater than what people used to expect.

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