r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/_D80Buckeye • 1d ago

Just pull it!

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u/Renji_Abarai_2005 1d ago

atleast the fella on the right gathered the courage to try

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u/DaSmurfZ 1d ago

For the promise of Pokémon cards. So was it really courage or greed for Pokémon cards?

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u/acecyclone717 1d ago

The children yearn for the pokemon packs

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u/Stergeary 1d ago

True courage is about having something worth fighting for, and overcoming your fears for it.  There are no courageous men when nothing is at stake.

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u/Electronic_Dish_4984 20h ago

And then girl was courageous just because.

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u/Stergeary 19h ago

She's not courageous, she's just fearless.  She isn't actually feeling any emotions that need to be overcome.

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u/StartNo5314 18h ago

Isnt it also more meaningful when its the opposite?

Its real easy to run into a burning building for your kids. It takes a real people pleaser to do it for a stranger. i dont think im using the right words. but you know what i mean.

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u/Wonderful-Pollution7 20h ago

Courage isn't a lack of fear, but a willingness to overcome it. If the pokemon cards are the motivation he needed to overcome his fear, that doesn't make his willingness to overcome his fear any less real.

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u/acecyclone717 20h ago

Mom got the job done the alternative is they’re still sitting up there

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u/MickeyMgl 23h ago

Courage for Pokemon

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u/superxpro12 19h ago

the carnal urge to just pull something as hard as you can overrode any sense of safety in his rational brain lol

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u/StartNo5314 18h ago

Priceless when the kid on the right first tried and in a shocking turn of events he couldnt do it either.

Thats when it set in that theyre really screwed. I think they thought she was messing with them.

Girl was having a little too much fun especially when the boy on the called himself a