Ive read your post several times smallstar, to make sure I get it fully.
My absolute code still stands, it just depends on if your going to take it to literal extremes, the actions of the man whos code it is Druss was a fairly simple man but he used it to prevent him from being evil. He saw life as black and white, maybe thats harder to do in this day and age, yet I think it is still good code for me.
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the question was "would you let the bum beat up the other bum", and my friend had to stop me from interfering.
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Does this suggest that you wanted to get involved, if so why? Was it because you knew it was the right thing to do?
Maybe you are letting people die everyday, but they are not within your sphere of direct influence, people been attacked nearby are, and you would try and help them as best you can as you have already said, that is all any of us can do.
That instinct is their for a reason, and I hope when you have the opportunity to help someone you do so, because you know it is the right thing to do.
Im sure some would argue that what make hero's is their foolishness. Martin Luther King had a very very low chance of success against the years of previous rule. Lance Armstrong is a hero for many, and Im sure doctors worldwide said it was foolishness when he undertook the Tour de France again and again and again. Harry Potter a novice wizard is up against the greatest wizard of the age, and yet, he battles on rather than hiding, foolish some would say, yet he continues and why, because it is the right thing to do.
MLK died because of his belief, Harry Potter probably will die because of his foolishness, but one suceeded in changing the world, another will succeed in changing the world.
I will try and combat evil wherever I see it, so that I can look myself in the mirror and be proud, if you can't follow this path, or think it is wrong to do so thats fine too. But I think perhaps another attribute of a hero that needs adding to the list is 'continuing to struggle despite insurmountable seemingly impossible (some would say foolish) odds' but I cant quite turn it into a word, I dont think perseverance quite covers it.
Any Ideas?