Perhaps we need to pick our heroes more carefully?
November 11, 2014 Comments Off on Perhaps we need to pick our heroes more carefully?Read moreCalling all cops and troops heroes insult those who actually are heroic – the soldier who runs into the line of fire to protect his division, the police officer who works tirelessly to find a missing child – by placing them alongside the cops who shoot unarmed teenagers who have their hands in the air, or the soldier who rapes his subordinate.
It also degrades the collective understanding of heroism to the fantasies of high-budget, cheap-story action movies.