Being neutral toward everything (by neutral meaning "central"), while staying aside should something bad happen, is the best way someone could try to live would they live long enough, amirite?
I live like this: I partecipate, I analyze, but I never take a first-role (I prefer being a supporter)
Can you really say you've lived if you go through your entire life without expressing your opinions? Without even HAVING opinions? Sure, you might live long, but you won't have accomplished anything. A life, but a coward's life.
Neutral means staying central to something while not being too much involuted into it. Is that being coward?