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Lets leave the pedophile rapists out of this, as that is an extreme case.
Not really. There's a lot of child rapists in the Army. One of the "Blackhawk Down" guys was a child rapist.
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So just because poor Johnny is a bit of an idiot and a fwck-up, does this automatically negate his ability to be a hero??
Of course not. But if he's a bit of an idiot and falls down a well breaking his kneck and dying is he a hero?
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What prerequisites are there for being a hero?
Doing something
heroic? Hence the term.
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If I kill someone with friendly fire ( accident) then I can no longer be a hero. I try my hardest to the best of my ability, and just because I make a mistake when the bullets are whizzing by my head, and now I no longer qualify to be a hero.
Yes, that's correct. If you kill someone who's on the same side as you by mistake you're not a hero. If you do it on purpose you'll be courtmarshled.
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What exactly do you think the criteria is to become a hero? Is it based on success? Will? Demeanor? Intelligence? What exactly is it?
Valor mostly. In my oppinion if you don't win a Bronze Star or higher commendation you're very likely not a hero. Sorry. I was in Gulf 1. I've been shot at before in other places. I'm not a hero. I'm just some guy who was working for the government. Are you a hero if you push a pen at the Pentagon? Why not?
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I think anyone that unselfishly pays the ultimate sacrifice, on behalf of another person, should be considered a hero.
Yeah, that whole "Death is inherantly noble" stuff is ********* Soldiers will tell you it's ******** too. They don't revere people hwo die because they were idiots. I once overheard a D-boy tell someone that being under fire was a good process for weeding out the people that were more likely to get him killed some day.
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If a cougar attacks a mother and a daughter in the woods, and the mother goes and fights the cougar giving the daughter time to get away. The mother pays for the life of her daughter with her own. Is she a hero for this act?
Sure.
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What if after killing the mother, the cougar tracks down and kills the daughter as well, does this negate her heroism?
Nope. It's also not a metaphor for someone who dies because they fall out of a helicopter.
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I can't see how giving everything you have, and everything you are ever going to have, is not enough for you to qualify fo you to be a hero. The rest is based on skill and intelligence, and I don't think these are prerequisites to being a hero.
They're not, but dying is easy, being a hero is hard.
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Tell the mother of the dead fwck-up, that her son is not a hero
I wouldn't have to, she'd know. Look there's a diffrence between it being a
tragedy that people die, which it allways is and them being
heros for dying.
Tell the mother of the dead soldier who wins the CMH post-h that her son's sacrafice is equal to that of someone who dies of a heart attack while in combat.
Let me know how that goes.