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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The guy who saved us all from peadophiles just by writing a thread about it?
Maybe he should do one about floods or the war in Syria and save us all..."
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Soldiers for what the do as well of the doctors and Nurses they never get much credit for what they do but they all do a fantastic job. "
Does that mean soldiers of both sides in a conflict are hero's ?  |
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It's a very interesting question Soxy.
I'd say it's paradigmatic.
If enough people say someone is a hero then they are indeed a hero.
There are many heroes given awards for which I cannot see any heroism having taken place.
Youngsters that have countless operations are an example that spring to mind. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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It's a very interesting question Soxy.
I'd say it's paradigmatic.
If enough people say someone is a hero then they are indeed a hero.
There are many heroes given awards for which I cannot see any heroism having taken place.
Youngsters that have countless operations are an example that spring to mind. "
Yes Gwanny , I do sometimes feel as a plaudit the term hero has lost meaning .....
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I think being a hero can mean different things to different people , none are any less worthy than another -
The parents who make massive sacrifices to there own lives to bring up a disabled child .
The dad who goes out to work long hours in a job he hates to feed his family .
The depressed person that manages force themselves out of the house during a black dog kind of day.
All these are just as worthy of the title as somebody that puts there own life in danger to save/help others .
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"Hmmmmmmm as difficult as those things seem I don't see it as heroism. "
Exactly my point .....It can mean different things to different people .
I have put myself in danger for others as part of my job but i think it takes more courage for someone suffering from clinical depression to keep doing normal day to day things than it does for me to do what i do .
It can mean so many things to so many different people. |
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By *rs DCouple
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"Soldiers for what the do as well of the doctors and Nurses they never get much credit for what they do but they all do a fantastic job.
Does that mean soldiers of both sides in a conflict are hero's ? "
no only one side are soldiers the other side are terrorist,rebels,or gorillas |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Or people who say squirting is piss.... 
It is tho .........."
We know that Granny... but it takes a hero like you to say it before the skene gland gang wade in. |
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"Hmmmmmmm as difficult as those things seem I don't see it as heroism.
Exactly my point .....It can mean different things to different people .
I have put myself in danger for others as part of my job but i think it takes more courage for someone suffering from clinical depression to keep doing normal day to day things than it does for me to do what i do .
It can mean so many things to so many different people."
Interesting point, reminds me of another quote:
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good.
There are men who struggle for a year and they are better.
There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still.
But there are those who struggle all their lives:
These are the indispensable ones. |
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"Hmmmmmmm as difficult as those things seem I don't see it as heroism.
Exactly my point .....It can mean different things to different people .
I have put myself in danger for others as part of my job but i think it takes more courage for someone suffering from clinical depression to keep doing normal day to day things than it does for me to do what i do .
It can mean so many things to so many different people."
I disagree.
If you believe a depression sufferer is a hero and fifty others don't share your belief, then he/she is only a hero to you......
I know what you are saying some people will see acts as heroic that others don't.
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"Soldiers for what the do as well of the doctors and Nurses they never get much credit for what they do but they all do a fantastic job.
Does that mean soldiers of both sides in a conflict are hero's ? "
Good question. IMHO, and some experience, soldiers on both sides experience the very worst of their politicians failure and endure something only soldiers on both sides know.
Not all soldiers are heroes but many are complicit in heroic deeds, and like myself, have walked amongst heroes. Heroic acts are carried out in conflict by both sides - but it is often the winner who writes the citations. There are however great acts of courage where the citation was forwarded by the opposing forces as the act was truly an act of valour.
Insurgents however are a completely different case and it would take far more than this page to explain. |
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"Hmmmmmmm as difficult as those things seem I don't see it as heroism.
Exactly my point .....It can mean different things to different people .
I have put myself in danger for others as part of my job but i think it takes more courage for someone suffering from clinical depression to keep doing normal day to day things than it does for me to do what i do .
It can mean so many things to so many different people.
Interesting point, reminds me of another quote:
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good.
There are men who struggle for a year and they are better.
There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still.
But there are those who struggle all their lives:
These are the indispensable ones."
Good quote , do you know who it was ?
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This question makes me think of those three americans who foiled an attack on a train ..... ( not sure if it was in France )
They were hailed as heroes. They weren't fussy on the title....... one of them said it was act or die. I think he said I did it purely to survive.
Now society can give him a title and say he saved very many people on the train.
He, however seems to know that he'd have still fought even if he had been the ONLY person on the train with the terrorist.
He wanted to live.
He didn't leave his warm bed and drive like fook to the train and knock the terrorist out.
He wanted to save his own life. |
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"Hmmmmmmm as difficult as those things seem I don't see it as heroism.
Exactly my point .....It can mean different things to different people .
I have put myself in danger for others as part of my job but i think it takes more courage for someone suffering from clinical depression to keep doing normal day to day things than it does for me to do what i do .
It can mean so many things to so many different people.
I disagree.
If you believe a depression sufferer is a hero and fifty others don't share your belief, then he/she is only a hero to you......
I know what you are saying some people will see acts as heroic that others don't.
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To be a hero , you only have to be thought of as one by one person .
Just because you are not hero worshipped by thousands doesn't make you any less of a hero .
Like the the single Mum/ dad being a hero in there sons/ daughters eyes . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Hmmmmmmm as difficult as those things seem I don't see it as heroism.
Exactly my point .....It can mean different things to different people .
I have put myself in danger for others as part of my job but i think it takes more courage for someone suffering from clinical depression to keep doing normal day to day things than it does for me to do what i do .
It can mean so many things to so many different people.
Interesting point, reminds me of another quote:
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good.
There are men who struggle for a year and they are better.
There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still.
But there are those who struggle all their lives:
These are the indispensable ones.
Good quote , do you know who it was ?
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Bertold Brecht |
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"Hmmmmmmm as difficult as those things seem I don't see it as heroism.
Exactly my point .....It can mean different things to different people .
I have put myself in danger for others as part of my job but i think it takes more courage for someone suffering from clinical depression to keep doing normal day to day things than it does for me to do what i do .
It can mean so many things to so many different people.
Interesting point, reminds me of another quote:
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good.
There are men who struggle for a year and they are better.
There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still.
But there are those who struggle all their lives:
These are the indispensable ones.
Good quote , do you know who it was ?
Bertold Brecht "
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By (user no longer on site)
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A true hero doesn't need recognition or reward, they just need their name.
I myself have medals, awards, merits etc etc on account of actions thru my job which are nice to leave to my kids and I have been called a hero but for me there's no such thing as a hero. There are just people who do the right thing when they happen to be in a particular situation. My job just happens to put me in those situations more than your average man on the street. There are people that do and there are people that don't. You don't know which one you are until the time comes. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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you can only really be a Hero if you are a woman and you would need to commit suicide if your lover dies.
Read the origin of the name from the Greek myth of Hero and her lover Leander
The word hero used as someone who does selfless deeds is an incorrect use of the word, even if Leander (the man who swam the Hellespont nightly to be with Hero) was used it would be disingenuous as he was only after a shag anyway. |
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People who act for the greater good of others, without considering the price they pay or the accolade they may receive.
This can be anyone and in many different scenarios not just conflict. |
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"Aside from the obvious men in tights and overpants, to me it is someone that I can look up to with admiration for who they are or what good they have done.
Like my Dad for instance "
Absoulutely spot on  |
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