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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1537976" data-attributes="member: 158">Others have covered the Campbellian Definition. My personal definition is someone, who performs altruistic action with no concern towards his or her own safety. If I perform an altruism, but it poses little risk, then I may be a good guy, but I'm no hero. If I perform an action to help another person in crisis, and this involves definite risk on my part, then I could indeed go by the name &quot;hero.&quot;There are always exceptions (it's kind of hard for me to call, say, Hitler's bodyguards &quot;heroic&quot;), but generally, if someone is acting heroically, you know it. Everyday Policemen and Firemen are heroes to me; no one said, &quot;you MUST become a public servant&quot;, and no one has asked them to harm another person; but the policeman who has to shoot another human being to stop them from hurting or killing another human being to me is a hero just the same. By the same token, a fire fighter who removes someone from a burning building is a hero, as is a paramedic who must enter a collapsing structure to stabilize someone before they can be moved.In D&amp;D context, all that's required of heroism is the Edmund Burke definition; you just have to do something against the forces of evil. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 1537976, member: 158"] Others have covered the Campbellian Definition. My personal definition is someone, who performs altruistic action with no concern towards his or her own safety. If I perform an altruism, but it poses little risk, then I may be a good guy, but I'm no hero. If I perform an action to help another person in crisis, and this involves definite risk on my part, then I could indeed go by the name "hero." There are always exceptions (it's kind of hard for me to call, say, Hitler's bodyguards "heroic"), but generally, if someone is acting heroically, you know it. Everyday Policemen and Firemen are heroes to me; no one said, "you MUST become a public servant", and no one has asked them to harm another person; but the policeman who has to shoot another human being to stop them from hurting or killing another human being to me is a hero just the same. By the same token, a fire fighter who removes someone from a burning building is a hero, as is a paramedic who must enter a collapsing structure to stabilize someone before they can be moved. In D&D context, all that's required of heroism is the Edmund Burke definition; you just have to do something against the forces of evil. :) [/QUOTE]

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