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reflective thoughts on heroes

posted February 14, 2007 - 3:21pm
reflective thoughts on heroes

This first part is to the people in charge of the website. I just wanted to stay that I am sorry about the decreasing quality of the past and the side stepping, but it will not happen again. Now on to the real reason for the post.

I was just a little while ago thinking about what makes a hero and so I decided to write down some thoughts about it. Heroes are part of what are culture is. They shape and reflect what the people believe and what they value. Heroes are what people what to be. There are many qualities and types of people that make up heroes. Heroes have not changed all that much from what they were in the past. Heroes are what people make of them and how they are used to help improve the society as a whole.
The qualities in a hero today are many, and not that much different from the past. They have many of the same traits of the past that make them a hero. Heroes today have to be brave and courageous. They need strong morals and ethic, so that would make them different from the villains. They have a duty to good and loyalty to people. Heroes need to be physically and/or mentally strong. Heroes know right from wrong and do want people like to do such as save people and defeat wickedness. Heroes are like in the olden days in the way that they came from a group of people that we can understand. Heroes generally come from where they live are such as most American heroes are Americans. Some of the feats that are needed would include touching people’s lives in way that are important. These feats would include saving family and friends like firefighters or destroying a national evil like the army does. Less renown heroes would include teaching valuable people lessens like teachers do.
These qualities lead to what types of heroes that the people want. Many heroes in the culture are like the common person. If heroes were only from the extreme high or low class people then sometime people would not be able to understand the hero. People such as firefighters and policemen because they do help out the people and are for the most part a commoner. These people have duty to good and are loyal to the people they protect. They have strong ethics and are punished heavily when they break these rules of ethics. Other heroes are warriors such as soldiers and other army agents. These people fight to keep peace and the people free from evil. These people show courage against the forces of evil and vanquish it. They are want keeps freedom around and people want to be free.
Because of the values in heroes this leads to the reason for why society has heroes. Society has heroes because people need someone better then them to look to. The values of heroes are highly prized qualities that are hard to reach by ourselves. So we use heroes as a way to show the good side of humankind. The qualities such as bravery are shown we have until the time comes in the lives of the person to show it. So heroes are used to show that humans do have these values went, the time comes to show it. Other qualities such as ethics are something people like to think that all good people have and vile people do not have. This is not totally true. Some times honorable people do things that they regret and sometimes the terrible people might have some good quality. Society today has many movies to see about the good guy beating the bad guy but this just shows that this is what people wish happened. Sometimes the slime of the earth gets away with thing that are very terrible, or they beat the good side. This is not something that people want to think about so we have heroes that always wins. This results in people thinking that they are safer then they really are. Every person has a different view of a hero. People’s heroes are base upon some form of weakness that the individual person has. So if a person has a police officer as their main hero then this could show that the person wishes that they maybe had a stronger moral or ethics.
Heroes do exist in society and always had. Heroes do not change that much over the years. They are still strong morally, mentally, and physically. They are still used to help improve people and show people how to live better. Heroes are needed to be useful so that people can always look for improving themselves. Improving yourself is a good thing but the hero should be used only for looking to what to live for not as the way to improve you.

If you got anything to say on the matter, please let me know.


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Great article on heros

I agree with your assessment of hero's in our society, they help us to shape our own ethics, values and future.

Celanith

Hello everyone, stop and set awhile.

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