Brave (adj.): having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty: having or showing courage
Imagine your friends are have started clambering down the slippery rocks by the waterfall - specifically the area your parents have told you is dangerous, and you should stay away. You've never done anything like this before and it's a long way down and kind of scary and you're sort of afraid of heights…but sometimes you have to try the scary things to find out they're not so scary. On the other hand, you've moved around all your life and this is the first group of friends who've taken you in - are you risking your chance at having friends if you tell them no and refuse to follow?
Is it braver to go?
Or braver to stay?
Imagine you have built yourself a career, finding a satisfying niche that that takes your unusual combination of disparate but technical skills and puts them to use toward serving the people of your country. Then, the most interesting and important work is taken away, and those who now lead seek to harm rather than help the people you and your colleagues planned to spend your careers serving, and part of their plan for doing that is explicitly described as traumatizing and chasing out the employees who most want to help those in need.
For how long do you struggle against the constant attacks and demoralization, the moral injury of the harm now being done by your hands on the keys…for the occasional chance to protect someone from the worst of the harm - or even to protect the truth? On the other hand, can you leave the team you've built, the friends you've made, your livelihood, your entire expected future…for a chance to find the sense of self you've lost, and the major question of whether there will actually be a way to make a difference from outside?
Is it braver to go?
Or braver to stay?
And if you find yourself choosing the less brave path,
Are you failing [yourself | the world]?
Or is it okay?