Lets get it right . Being brave is something you do, an act, like saving someones life while risking your life. It is a comment usually reserved for soldiers and saints. Being brave means you usually are willing to lose something personal for the better good of mankind. Bravery is when you lay down your ego, your life even ,to save some one else. Brave climbers usually do first ascents and do not grade them. Bravery has nothing to do with downgrading in fact it is the oppisite. Humble. Being humble is being meek. Humble meens modesty. If you were humble you would not talk about grades nor would you ever down grade . Down grading is not an act of humbleness. The word Humble is usually reserved for Quiet Martyr's. Not ,climbers. A brave and humble person is hard to find . Think Gandhi .
@ Jerr The way you put it I understand you think I am wrong. Maybe it is because my poor english. However, my point is that climbers are like waters, always finding the easiest way out (to get a grade). If rumor says a route/boulder is hard for the grade very few climb it... Why is it that just very few climbers suggest downgrading when appropriate? Climbers go to Raily, Kalymnos and Rodellar and make a nice scorecard/personal records. For me it is a humble act to say that, 'I am not that good as the grade suggest!', when you have done a non realistic personal grade record. For me it is brave to have the courage to say to all the climbers who have done a specific route, 'I suggest downgrading'. Because they might be offended as it also means - you are not as good a s the grade suggest. The Emperor's new clothes is a fairy tale about a boy telling the rest of the world that you all have been fooled.
Brave and humble.