IIN that people are being dubbed "heros" for doing normal things or simply helping themselves? Examples: Someone being called a hero for being disgustingly enormous, getting their shit together, and losing the weight. Or someone that finally came out of the closet. Good for them. But they're no hero. Also people who have beaten cancer or other horrific disease (the fucking doctors are the heros there). Again good for them. There are even single parents being called heros, they're just fucking parents. Someone who adopts an already exsisting kid in need of love and a home, they are more deserving of the title.
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It annoys me to see words being stripped of meaning, and the recipients of those words being traduced. To me a hero is someone like Andrew Parker who put his own life at risk to save twenty others when the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized.
Losing weight is commendable but not heroic.
Then we just invent our own language and go live under the sea.
Actually that was the tone of one of my first posts here, what makes a hero?
Maybe you just don't find their accomplishments as admirable as others do, and so that's why it bothers you when they are called heroes, because you feel like that is an over-statement or something. Yeah?
What are some things, in your opinion, that are deserving of the "hero" title then?
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I would call Glen Keane my hero. He didn't fight away any alien invasions but I do respect him as an animator and he inspires my to better my skills.
If someone else sees a hero where you do not, it doesn't mean that they're wrong. It just means you and they find inspiration differently