[MD] A Place for the Principled Person

[MarshaV]

>perseverance, patience, honesty, courage, prudence and diligence.

What exactly do these things look like?  How would I recognize such 
attributes?

Would a person need to be constantly courageous?  Would an observer 
need to be there constantly to notice?  Would one large death-defying 
act suffice?   Would a life of many small unobserved courageous acts 
be adequate?

Could a person act with perseverance, patience, honesty, prudence and 
diligence, but lack courage, AND still be thought of as a principled 
person?   Could a person have all of these attributes most of the 
time, but have a phobia at the sight of snakes, AND still be a 
principled person?  What percentage is 'most of the time'?

Who could make such judgements?  RMP?  Rigel?  Mother Teresa?  A 
principled person?  A number of principled people?  Congress?  How 
many people would be necessary to make such a proclamation?

Aaah, but I get giddy with the questions.

I guess I've gotten lost?  Would someone please clarify the argument 
or question that this thread represents?

Marsha