Yep.

In different forms.

Always best to go through, not around. Builds the character necessary to give you the strength to stand up for your values, morals, ethics, integrity, dignity, self respect. A sense or semblance of any civic duty you might have and any moral obligation to God, your own humanity as well as humanity generally-speaking.

Choosing flight for the perceived "short cuts", is only a short cut to being coward.