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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3027476" data-attributes="member: 2067">Military units do this every day. "Sir, Intelligence indicates that the area ahead has no land mines." And then you act on that knowledge. You do trust the information of the specialists, when in life-or-death situations.Or because their characters are heroes who take calculated risks as a matter of course, heroes who aren't intimidated by inoccuous levers. Depends on how badly I want the TV, and how brave I am. I'm no hero, and I'd definately consider being put in excrutiating temporary pain for $500. Yeah, it's bad, but it's only temporary. This TV will kick ass for YEARS to come! Now, if I was truly heroic, and I had just stopped a bank robbery and saved the people inside with my magical power to survive getting shot in the face, and on my way home I cut through the park where there was a guy with a TV who was offering to give it to people who could be shot in the face, or for $500....I'd still say "Okay! Fire away random person!" And if he happened to have a kryptonite bullet that actually killed me, I would not be feeling heroic anymore.What does a hero do, send people to die in his place, or go to die in the place of others (knowing he's got the skills to survive where they don't)? Do I brave the unknown, or do I pay Little Jimmy the town cripple to go brave the unknown so I don't get hurt? Do I go explore dungeons for a McGuffin, or do I just bankroll some adventurers to do it for me? Do I fight the monster, or hide under the bed so the monster doesn't get me?The characters, being heroes, don't choose the safest course of action. That's the point. Heroes survive not choosing the safest course of action because they're HEROES. You wouldn't, I wouldn't, even that military general wouldn't, but a hero....a hero would. No man in a book or a movie ever died from pulling a lever.</blockquote>

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