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Originally Posted by acidzebra
While I agree with your general point about Paris, how are your "real heroes" any different? They just exist, die, and are forgotten. Kids who never get into trouble are kids who stay within the "safe" boundaries and will never discover anything new or have an original thought. "the right way to live" seems relative to the time and place you grow up in.
Heroes break rules sometimes. Sometimes they break whole systems. So again, while I agree with your statements about near-worship of vapid nobodies whose only claim to fame is inherited cash and a general lack of inhibitions, I don't know about your yardstick for heroism.
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Hmmm .... so a lot of the scientists that I think of as heroes, like say Newton, Einstein, Hubble, Tyson, Hawking ... because they never got into trouble as children, and generally lived within societies rules, then all of their thinking is unoriginal?? None of them ever discovered something??
I too admire the everyday heroes ... and there are a lot of them out there. For me, it's not so much the living the everyday life that makes them a hero to me ... it's the extraordinary things they do to help their community or the world at large that makes them heroes (to me).
But, I don't see that it is somehow impossible to live life as a decent human being in most societies and not have an original thought or make a great discovery. That would be really sad if it were true.