So pitiful that almost everyone was willing to sacrifice all freedom, morality and law just to obtain a few more years of life. Humans don't live long, but they were so afraid of death, they have been willing to do anything.
I never knew Cowardice was a sin until I search for it. Makes you wonder why it has been downplayed. I found this short discussion about it https://www.donnalcampbell.com/salt--light-devotionals/cowardice-is-a-sin
"Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too must die, but one thing never will die, the fame of one who has done well." Hávamál ("sayings of the high one") is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking Age. They present advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom.
This isn't exactly true, given how much disinfo is around, but at least they acknowledged that the preservation of their own life was not the highest good.
I would suggest everyone find some conversation among "liberals" in whatever format they can stomach and listen carefully to it. You'll be able to confirm there's no trace of something in the conversation, and I would suggest that's because it's entirely missing from their consciousness.
That is, they have no concept that they are are not completely morally correct, and thus superior to anyone who disagrees with them. And clearly, if one is morally correct, there is no possibility or error in facts, reasoning, or principles. Indeed, facts must give way to this conclusion, and will be created as necessary.
It's mot that they have reasoned that they are acting morally, or that they believe it, or that they assert it by fiat, or see it as self-evident, or even have any consciousness of it whatsoever. It is the same as up being up, and down being down. It simply is.
And before anyone claims the "right-wing religious conservatives" are the same with their self-righteousness, well, that's the opposite of true. Try to find some religious person who would disagree with statements like, "We're all sinners," or "We all fall short of the glory of God," or "To err is human." That's a completely opposite mindset.