It's one thing to give up having a normal life, home, family, security and so on when you're all anguished, driven and wouldn't be able to appreciate it anyway (not that I’m ignoring the courage it takes to face the darkness). It's quite another thing to choose to pursue justice or compassion for other's because you are just that selfless.
I can think of four examples: Jesus, Siddhartha, Gandhi and Superman. We view most of these people are enlightened beings.
Superman didn't have a reason beyond his inherent goodness and he is both an exception by virtue of being an alien and by his having a normal live as with loving, supportive parents, a job he wanted and companionship.
In terms of plausibility, it seems to me that ‘ordinary’ heroes have to have a reason to want to save people or they are just too good to be true.
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It's one thing to give up having a normal life, home, family, security and so on when you're all anguished, driven and wouldn't be able to appreciate it anyway (not that I’m ignoring the courage it takes to face the darkness). It's quite another thing to choose to pursue justice or compassion for other's because you are just that selfless.
I can think of four examples: Jesus, Siddhartha, Gandhi and Superman. We view most of these people are enlightened beings.
Superman didn't have a reason beyond his inherent goodness and he is both an exception by virtue of being an alien and by his having a normal live as with loving, supportive parents, a job he wanted and companionship.
In terms of plausibility, it seems to me that ‘ordinary’ heroes have to have a reason to want to save people or they are just too good to be true.
This saddens me.