First the disclaimer: It's your cabal, none of this is an argument.
I'm playing devil's advocate for a bit more clarification for IC
vs. OOC things mainly.

From what I read up there, I'm getting the audience as a major
factor. Other people's perceptions of you will define if what you
do is courageous. So either those outside the cabal whining that
a villager did something they felt was cowardly maybe can be ignored
since you said 'peers'. If the only peers of villagers are other
villagers, this would work out well enough. So that sort of leaves
blowhards (I hate those guys) and actors. For the first you have tim
he wins about 1 in 10 but talks so much about the win all the time
that eventually people buy into his crap that he is a bad ass.
Politics works pretty similar, spread the lie far enough and people
as they begin to hear it from multiple sources believe it and then
spread it, which flows naturally into the actors. Fake it whether
you make it or not. (I'm aware alot of this is where imms come in
blowhard flexes his verbal muscles and imm comments about how full
of it he is.)

Now for the part that bothers me:
Examples of courage is all about success, so if you take the risk
and fail you were just stupid. (This then defines almost every
character I've played hehe) So if I play Villagerbob and I go in at
4 or 5 to 1 odds KNOWING I'm going to die, but my character is sphere
Neverquit and I naturally die... a couple of times. Hrm this is me
here we'll make it 4. and I get enemycabals outer down to convulsing
and timmyrager wakes swoops in and finishes it (also at 4 to 1)
Then he's brave and I'm stupid. Is that what I'm getting there?

or as is usual with me I burn a con per retrieval, I make it but
at what most players consider a stupid high cost. Brave or stupid?

Before any emotional reaction sets in far enough to carry over after
hitting the 'reply' button I ask you to read the disclaimer again.

Thanks in advance for any reply that doesn't end with stfu. Hahaha.