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Post by hansoo on Aug 12, 2014 13:47:49 GMT
As we have talked about during class, one of the major themes of this quarter will be "hero." I've always wondered about what are some different viewpoints on the relationship between a hero and his or her morals. I found this article on the internet, and I believe it provides an interesting perspective on the issue above. Hope you guys enjoy reading it. www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/06/06/3519389.htm |
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Post by crystalcao on Aug 16, 2014 9:06:40 GMT
Also, a hero is considered as one of the most successful people. Heroes are ambitious, they concentrate on their goals and keep enriching their skills and knowledge in order to achieve their dream.
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Post by daniel on Aug 16, 2014 11:29:30 GMT
Before we talk about morals of hero, i think it is important to define who is hero. However, in my opinion, it is hard to say who are heroes or not depend on a point of view. For example, King Alexander widen his country's territory, and he was a hero in his country. On the other hand, the people and the countries that were invaded by king Alexander wouldn't consider him as a hero. So we have to look carefully whether the hero is hero to everyone.
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Post by lins on Aug 20, 2014 14:11:44 GMT
Well, I believe there are lots of perspectives for the definition of heroes. As Jooyoung said on the other thread, I believe that heroes should know when to sacrifice his values for majority. For instance, the hero should give up his freedom for other people's security. The hero doesn't necessarily mean that they should be strong, nice and etc. Students like us or even weak people can be hero depending on their perspectives and standard for the hero.
I also believe that heroes should know when or for whom to sacrifice. For instance, I believe that heroes don't need to give up their values for someone doesn't deserve it. Value of people may vary depending on people, yet I think that heroes should have some kinds of idea or his sets of rules to define for whom to give up his values for. Also he should know when to sacrifice. For example, he should try to save people at the right time. If the people don't need the help, the hero doesn't have any reasons to sacrifice his values. If he does, it would be wasting his time and energy.
So I believe that heroes should know for whom and when to sacrifice his values for.
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Post by brandonina on Aug 23, 2014 3:15:15 GMT
I think this is what we can think about. People consider some people as heroes.
But they might have killed or sacrificed certain people for the sake of the majority of society.
Or people just don't know the other side of the story.
For example, Christopher Columbus, who founded the America, killed numerous number of Indians.
And we praise and celebrate the existence of Columbus. It is not wrong to say we are praising a great murderer.
So I believe calling someone a hero, who may have done some immoral act (for sure at certain point in his or her life) is somewhat controversial.
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Post by ameliachen80385 on Aug 23, 2014 8:45:20 GMT
We were talking about morals of heroes during class.I would say this is very hard to distinguish who is a hero.
This is depending on what were you thinking or how did you think.
In my mine, HERO is a person who is sacrificed himself or herself makes the society better than before.
I do believe that a hero is known in the time of misfortune.
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Post by estherchoi on Aug 30, 2014 13:58:42 GMT
I too think that heroes don't necessarily mean that you can't do 'immoral' acts like killing people. It is, yes, not right to kill people. However, if murder is necessary, I believe the murderer can truly be called as a hero. For example, there was a father who was a bus driver. One day, he was driving the bus, which had many passengers. While he was driving, he noticed that the break of the bus was broken. Then he saw a little boy in front of the bus. If he turned the bus and hit something else to stop the bus from driving, many passengers would die or be severely injured. If he didn't turned the bus, then he would hit the boy and definitely kill him. The driver decided to save the passengers and sacrificed the boy, which turned out to be his son. In this case, is the father a hero? I think he is. He had to take in all the pain of killing his son himself and saved the lives of the passengers in the bus. Although he committed a crime of murder, this crime was necessary and so the driver deserves to be called a hero.
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Post by lukejoo on Aug 31, 2014 7:26:50 GMT
A hero is a very subjective concept. One can be a hero for some people while be a villain for others. War is the simplest example I believe. If your country was in war, you would undoubtedly support your own country because your life depends on the country's victory. So if there as, let's say a skillful general in your country who led successful battles, then you would see him as a hero. But if you were to be a person on the opposing country, he would appear to be a cruel murderer who killed your own people. So a hero is really just one side of a coin. You flip it, and you get a villain. As for morals, everyone has their own set of them. It just happens to be that some share the same ones. You favor the ones who have share the same ideas as you do while oppose those who go against yours.
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Post by jmoon234 on Aug 31, 2014 14:13:45 GMT
I agree with Luke. People consider who are heroes based on which side they are. For one side, a man can be considered as a hero, but to the opponent's side, that man can be perceived as a villain. Heroes are people who stand up for another person or "justice". Justice is used a lot in many different ways, but the one thing that is the same about the word justice is that every heroes uses justice. When I see heroes say "justice", I can only say that it is an excuse to use violence or force against others.
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Post by bilal on Aug 31, 2014 14:39:52 GMT
i believe heroes are made by societies perspectives, coz society turns he/she into a hero.
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Post by anyuchen on Aug 31, 2014 14:52:42 GMT
I think in 15th century. A hero is a person with a supernatural power can beat some monster that average people could not do. At that time, i think there are very nature accident happened and people considered it as the punishment given by God. A hero should have power could beat the nature. In the modern world, hero such as superman or spiderman, they usually have ability to save the people in danger. That is different concept.
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Post by sergeyfen on Sept 9, 2014 4:34:35 GMT
Everyone has different thoughts and concepts of a hero. As for me, hero is someone who sacrifices for the sake of others and doesn't brag about it. Heroes try to make choices to save people even if it may cost their own lives, but it does not stop them from saving other people and that is why we call those people "heroes." Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, with different goals and ways of doing good deeds. For example: in the war millions of soldiers have died in order to secure future of their families and whole nation, they gave their lives to achieve one united goal. Different example: people who donate millions of dollars to charities and other causes to save those who are in need, they also stay anonymous in order not to make any publications, etc. to me that's also a hero. We don't have an exact definition of a hero just as we can't define good and evil, but we all have a similar concept on what hero does.
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Post by stephen on Sept 9, 2014 10:25:16 GMT
I believe morale of heroes is set depending on how society depicts hero. Hero are mostly defined by society and society chooses the morale hero should have. Personally this is the right thing to do, because hero is most likely to be defined by society. If the society belongs in doesn't recognize the hero as hero, than that person is no longer a hero. So, in sum I believe that morality of hero doesn't really exist. This can be my perspective of hero's morality, but morality in general is like a code of Shivery, where it's set of laws you have to follow. For example a animated movie called Megamind shows great example of how hero that doesn't follow his morality or basic morality of hero can become villain.
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Post by elisalee on Sept 10, 2014 1:53:34 GMT
There are many different perspectives of hero. To some people, a person can be a hero, but to some people, he/she can't be a hero. I think it really depends on the person of how he/she defines a hero. If a person sacrificed him/herself in order to do something that helps a person, then the person would think that he/she did the hero act. However, to some people, saving the person wasn't a hero act since he may be a criminal. I do not think that it is always right to save people's lives if they did something that deserves death.
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Post by irin on Sept 10, 2014 7:18:41 GMT
I think hero is different perspective for some people he or she can be hero but some people it is not hero. It is depends how they define about hero. I think hero is most likely to be defined by society. like scarifice for someone is hero.
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