is the willingness to risk life and limb for the sake of something. For Richard Avramenko, who teaches political science at the University of Wisconsin, courage is the primary means by which humans raise themselves out of their individualistic, isolated and materialistic existence. To Aristotle it was a virtue, the greatest quality of the mind. In interviews later, she said she did not see her actions as heroic – she was just doing her job ‘as a human being’. When help arrived, she got back on a bus and continued her journey. Her aim, she later said, was to keep them occupied so that they would not go on to attack more people, including women and children who had gathered nearby. Then she went right up to his two assailants (armed with machete, meat cleaver and pistol) and talked to them – for 12 long minutes – until help arrived. Ingrid leapt off the bus and tried to save Rigby’s life – in vain his head had been almost severed. Or an ordinary – and extraordinary – woman called Ingrid Loyau Kennett, who in May 2013 was travelling on the number 53 bus when she spotted a young soldier, Lee Rigby, being knocked down and brutally hacked to death on a London street.
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