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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
The word, hero, is so badly used as to be pointless. My teacher is my hero. My coach is my hero. Number 22 on the DoDa football team is my hero. Give me a break.
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That's a pet peeve of mine, too. To me, one and
only one class of person fits the definition of "hero"-- someone who risks his or her life to protect/rescue someone else in a situation that
could have been ignored, when he or she
could have chosen to do nothing and not been in any risk of harm. That means that (to pick a highly publicized, reasonably recent example) I don't conciser the Hudson-landing pilot Sully Sullenberger to be a "hero" because he was stuck there, and saving his own rear, too.