<b><i>Max More <max@maxmore.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">Your mission--should you choose to accept it--is to reconceptualize <br>the hero myth, removing the core element of self-sacrifice.<br><br></blockquote>I'm guessing the PhD thing is a joke, but I wrote the following in a blog entry a while back:<br><br>"...in the real world, there is not so clear of a relationship between sacrifice and heroism as there is in story; in real life, you might very well be able to save <i>both</i> the preschooler and the old lady lying on the railroad tracks. <br><br>Real life is not a word problem in a law school test book; in real life, we have options, and we can innovate. So while trade-offs are inevitable, the trade-offs we are likely to encounter in our daily existence are not going to be (generally speaking) as clear-cut as what we see in film and literature. <br><br>In
books, there often seems to be a kind of prescience on the part of the heroes; they seem to "know" that their death, if it happens, will end up saving innocents. In reality, on the other hand, there is just as much chance that the would-be hero's "sacrifice" will lead to nothing more than one extra body for the cleanup crew."<br><br>- Anne<br><p>
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