I find it a bit insulting. When two guys came after me with a gun, I was a coward. I gave them my purse, which had every penny I had in the world at that moment ($28.00 while I was at the nadir of my unemployment) and my passport.

Cowardice let me survive, because that gun was big and it was pointed at vital bits. Yeah, I called the police, but the entrepreneurs in question are still at large.

On the other hand, I walked home from the T stop alone the next night. I still count that as one of the top five brave things I've ever done.