The one you shot for desertion was not a coward.

Society twists positive adjectives to mean or contain something negative. This is to confuse and disempower and discourage us by stigmatizing good qualities to promote bad ones that keep us in their cycle where they're trying to program us to receive.

They try to tell us that anything other than blind cowering obedience is cowardice and brainwashing and lack of common sense rather than often the opposite. They try to spread around that good qualities are symptoms of or signs of or traits of mental illness or personality disorder or intellectual disability or learning disability or moral failing or lack of ability to handle trauma or developmental arrest. Those things don't exist in any sort of negative way... It's them devaluing people who can't and/or won't conform to and support and defend their dehumanization and toxicity.

Enforced blind obedience... Dehumanization... Denial of acknowledgement of sentience... Is the only disease or defect or shortcoming here. Not anything else or anything extra or anything truly long term or good.