该句使用否定结构强调盲目服从与真正勇气的区别。
Courage is a quality worthy of praise, and people often encourage children to grow up brave. However, courage must also be guided by reason and a sense of right and wrong. Blindly obeying orders without judgment or rational thinking is not true courage, but a frightening and foolish form of bravery—one that authoritarian figures are often eager to encourage. The courage truly deserving of admiration is the courage to uphold the truth and to stand against fallacy, absurdity, and madness. It is a form of courage grounded in reason.
勇敢是一种值得赞扬的品质，人们在教育孩子时，也常常鼓励他们做一个勇敢的人。然而，勇敢同样有是非与理性的前提。不分对错、毫无理性地绝对服从命令的勇敢，其实是一种可怕而愚蠢的勇敢，也是专制者最乐于看到的勇敢。真正值得称道的勇敢，是坚持真理、敢于同谬误、荒唐以及疯狂抗争的勇敢，是一种建立在理性基础上的勇敢。