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Date Posted: 13:27:30 04/21/03 Mon
Author: indigo9
Subject: Well perhaps I didn't say it well enough.....
In reply to: e_mc2 's message, "Perhaps heroism is like beauty" on 09:59:07 04/21/03 Mon

I think that what he means is that completing the mission is a subset of what it means to be heroic. Completing the mission in the face of some great challenge or adversity. So if your mission is to cook dinner, but you have no food so you do something out of the ordinary to obtain food, that indeed would be heroic. Because NOT feeding the troops would hinder the mission.

On the other hand, if someone made a wrong turn and got captured, and because his mission wasn't completed, some key goal wasn't met, then it doesn't seem heroic just because he was captured. Even if he was tortured or something. I don't know enough about the mission in question to know what really happened, so I don't know if I consider her heroic or not. I DO consider the people who rescued her heroic.

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No, I think you said it well the first time -- e_mc2, 07:12:48 04/23/03 Wed
- But what exactly was the heroic act here? -- indigo9, 13:52:00 04/23/03 Wed
  - I don't know if I can explain it so you'll understand -- e_mc2, 09:55:07 04/24/03 Thu
    - Fair enough..... -- indigo9, 13:40:54 04/24/03 Thu
      - Well, that's going a little too far, even for me -- e_mc2, 13:09:30 04/25/03 Fri
        Yeah, I do think it's a misuse of the word "hero." -- indigo9, 07:07:49 04/26/03 Sat

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