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Chickens

2. To Chicken or not to Chicken ?
This is the main question
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3. Why students chicken out?
Verb [ intrans. ] ( chicken out) informal withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve
This does not explain anything: we all do not have nerve.
Why is it chicken out?
Not chicken in? Not chicken away?
This is a more universal phenomenon: we all tend to be afraid of the outside world: we freak out (why not in?) when we are forced to face it
Chicken shit is the key to the problem

4. Chicken Shit as a philosophical concept
What is it? It has nothing to do with chicken feces.
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Idioms: chicken shit
1.  Contemptibly petty or insignificant. For example, He has spent his life making up chicken shit rules that nobody follows anyway. This expression gained currency during World War II, when it was often applied to the enforcement of petty and disagreeable military regulations. [Vulgar slang; c. 1930] 2.  Cowardly, as in You're not too chicken shit to come along, are you? [Vulgar slang; mid-1940s]
Marine Corps Dictionary: Chicken Shit
Stupid and petty stuff usually directed by someone of more rank or authority.

5. Chicken Shit as a philosophical concept
No good: does not even scratch the surface
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Friendly Atheist » Chicken Shit Atheists they would start a website for “chicken shit atheists” (42:15) — that is, people who don’t use the word “atheist”… like Humanists, for example ... friendlyatheist.com/2007/10/27/chicken-shit- atheists/
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6. Chicken Shit as a philosophical concept
It is definitely a UNIVERSAL notion:
exists on different levels of our society: military, politics, education, culture ...
International phenomenon: we have our US CS; so do Germans, and, believe me, Russians also have tons of CS
We can touch it and can hear it
It is very likely an important by-product of the humankind
Salute to CS!

7. We are all Chicken

8. Life is a balance of things: positive/negative, inert/active, Yin and Yang
It is more informative to consider the balance of life forces as the balance of two universal ingredients:
chickeness (fear of action, the stabilizing factor) and
stupidity (the driving force of human activities)