Talk:Cowardice

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The section on cowardice as regards the London attacks seems more like the writer's political opinion than a further clarification of the topic. Sorry if I'm wrong. The Ephialtist 13:12, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unclear and Incomplete

From the article:

Cowardice is not fear, but rather a submission to vice...An example of cowardice would be to refuse to testify against a crime lord, merely because one might risk death.

Merely? And it is a vice to not want to die? This article reads quite strangely to me. Also, there is no mention of "cowardice" as a legal term, ie: the word is most commonly associated with military court-martials, which this article doesn't mention. 70.20.163.248 09:24, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I think it's referring to 'vice' in the Catholic sense, although it should explicitly say so.

While I didn't take out the other portions of the article (I may go back and edit that one para for POV when I feel a bit more secure in POV issues), I did put in a legal definition of cowardice as regards the US military.Pat Payne 18:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
This article is a) a dictionary entry and b) entirely POV. Both are violations of WP policy. -- 68.6.40.203

[edit] POV trouble again?

From the article:

Someone who kills a defenseless person is also considered a coward.

This seems to be using badly disguised weasel words, showing a POV. Whilst I, and many others agree, this is not encyclopedic. Thoughts?

[edit] Legal Defintion

I just removed the "legal definition" because a reading of UCMJ subchapter X, section 899, (http://www.military-network.com/main_ucmj/SUBCHAPTERX.html#892.92) shows that this section defines "misbehavior before the enemy", one part of which is "cowardly conduct". Cowardly conduct, as such, is never defined. Claiming that list items #1 through 4 and #6 through 9 constitute a definition of cowardice or cowardly conduct (list item #5) is as logically flawed as claiming that the other 8 articles constitute a definition of list item #4 (which would have ludicrous implications such as causing false alarms being part of the definition of casting away one's arms or munitions. In fact, items 1 to 9 are all different points (not each other's definitions) and my suspicion is that cowardly conduct, due to its rather vague/subjective nature, serves as the catchall for any act no one thought to list explicitly before it happened... If anyone knows of an actual legal definition of cowardice from any source (military or otherwise), it would be great to have on the page.

--BadLeprechaun (talk) 07:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC)