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<blockquote data-quote="lupus" data-source="post: 1539216" data-attributes="member: 13267">Being a hero is as much about why you do something as it is about what you do. If you do something for 'fame and riches', then that, for me, makes the whole 'hero' thing moot. If you do something because you're a semi-sociopathic man who'd go insane if he didn't risk his life (James Bond, at least the movie version), then you're not really a capital-H Hero.I like the scene in Babylon 5.&quot;You would trade your life for his? I thought you had destiny? Is that destiny not worth one life?&quot;&quot;I fall, another will take my place, and another, and another.&quot;&quot;But... your great cause!&quot;&quot;THIS is my cause! Life! One life, or a billion, it's all the same!&quot;&quot;Then you make the sacrifice willingly. No fame, no armies or banners or cities to celebrate your name; you will die alone and unremarked... and forgotten.&quot;I think that's the essence of heroism. At least, the model of heroism that I like best. <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=":)" />(Edit: watching the ep to get the quote right. Just ran across this next one<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=":)" />&quot;No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for many, not for glory, not for fame - for one person, in the dark, where no-one will ever know or see.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lupus, post: 1539216, member: 13267"] Being a hero is as much about why you do something as it is about what you do. If you do something for 'fame and riches', then that, for me, makes the whole 'hero' thing moot. If you do something because you're a semi-sociopathic man who'd go insane if he didn't risk his life (James Bond, at least the movie version), then you're not really a capital-H Hero. I like the scene in Babylon 5. "You would trade your life for his? I thought you had destiny? Is that destiny not worth one life?" "I fall, another will take my place, and another, and another." "But... your great cause!" "THIS is my cause! Life! One life, or a billion, it's all the same!" "Then you make the sacrifice willingly. No fame, no armies or banners or cities to celebrate your name; you will die alone and unremarked... and forgotten." I think that's the essence of heroism. At least, the model of heroism that I like best. :) (Edit: watching the ep to get the quote right. Just ran across this next one:) "No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for many, not for glory, not for fame - for one person, in the dark, where no-one will ever know or see." [/QUOTE]

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