What's the point????

Divergent By Veronica Roth

bravery |ˈbrāv(ə)rē|

noun

courageous behavior or character.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense [bravado] ): from French braverie or Italian braveria, based on Latin barbarus (see barbarous ).

 To be dauntless is to show fearlessness and determination. So those that show an especially strong amount of determination are picked off? It doesn't make much sense. Also, if Four has Four fears and hasn't made any changes, is the 2nd and 3rd parts of the initiation flawed? If the only point of the fear test is too help you lose your fears, and it doesn't work with everyone, should it be mandatory? The only thing that makes more sense, is when Tris overhears the Erudite plans for the war, it means the Erudite want to remove anyone smart or cunning enough to figure out the plot, my one question is why now? 


Also if the Erudite were just going to turn the dauntless into soldier-zombies, why didn't they do this the first time Abnegation wasn't being fair. The only answer is that this war plan has been in the works for years, and the dauntless only now have enough manpower to do the takeover.


I think that there has to be more, some underlying cause completely unrelated to the rest of their complaints. I'm betting that Abnegation isn't as clean and innocent as we and Tris think it is. I think that Erudite may be the bad guy here, but unfortunately true goodness seems a bit impossible in this world, we see that in the lying behind Candor.


In all, Dauntless isn't fair to to it's initiates, Erudite's plans are strange, and Abnegation might be flawed.

-drat/chase