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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2018 21:05:54 GMT -5
Just a wierd thought I've had.
A dream of mine (or a goal you could say) was always to be seen as a benevolent hero, someone who did something brave for the needs of another. Typically, the fantasy would be about saving someone from great peril at the risk of myself.
Whilst this sounds altruistic, after giving it some thought I now realize how destructive and selfish this desire actually is. The very concept of this requires one key component which is a person in peril, I am effectively asking for someone's actual life to be in danger just so I can step in and "heroically" save them like a self absorbed prick.
The very concept of people in danger frightens and worries me, I do not wish for people to come to harm therefor I cannot become a "hero" like in my fantasies.
I am ok with this, whilst it'd be cool and shit to be big buff hero man I think it would be even better if big buff hero man was never needed.
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Post by sarais on Feb 14, 2018 3:36:46 GMT -5
An anti-hero was always required.
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Post by xeepeep on Feb 16, 2018 18:47:36 GMT -5
Whilst this sounds altruistic, after giving it some thought I now realize how destructive and selfish this desire actually is. Nah man. You do not desire the person to end up in a dangerous situation. You want to rescue him. It's not like "I want BAD SITUATION to happen so that I could do HEROIC DEED", but more like "If BAD SITUATION happened, I'd do HEROIC DEED". The difference is very subtle but noticeable. You just want to be a good person. How the heck can that be selfish, Jesus?!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2018 21:57:02 GMT -5
bzzrak stole my lines
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Post by 40oz on Feb 17, 2018 11:18:30 GMT -5
I am effectively asking for someone's actual life to be in danger just so I can step in and "heroically" save them like a self absorbed prick. That's an interesting paradox. I was watching a show on NBC recently called The Good Place which presented a similar conundrum. It is a comedy about a girl who was a pretty shitty and selfish person her whole life. She dies in a fatal shopping cart accident in a supermarket parking lot. She awakens in the afterlife, in some perfect opulent fantasy archetype of heaven, presumably by mistake. She struggles to fit in with all the nice people and its later revealed that this afterlife was a demon's mindgame design to torture her by making her spend her eternal afterlife in a world where she couldn't possibly fit in. What appeared to be her "Good Place" was actually her "Bad Place" and the rest of the season is a series of episodes where she's trying to do good deeds for people so she can get admitted into the real "Good Place." One of the caveats however is that she's not allowed to get moved into the Good Place despite her good deeds because they are done begrudgingly with the intention of seeking rewards later. In order to get into the Good Place she would have to learn to do good things for the sake of doing good things and not for your own self interests. Based on what you said it sounds like you're conflicted with the problem of wanting the status of a hero a bit more than wanting a person other than yourself to be rescued, even though wanting either one, or even both of those two things would require the same course of action.
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Post by xeepeep on Feb 18, 2018 6:28:34 GMT -5
Wanting to be a hero is still a great thing to want. Heroes inspire people. And being an inspiration is badass.
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