Still, I don't think Supe was necessarily heroic. He was just a guy doing what lots of other guys would do in his situation.
I wasn't going to say anything, what with all the tributes to him on my flist, but, well, yeah. You never really hear of anyone's unheroic efforts to battle whatever handicap du jour they have (unless you read The Onion, anyway). And he was lucky he happened to be wealthy enough to afford all the treatments that he so bravely struggled through, as well as contribute to the cause of helping others with the same issue. Does this make him a hero? Or rather, any more heroic than a sturggling person who can't do anything more than just stay alive?
On the other hand, he shouldn't be condemned for having a personal interest in the cause he's helping to support, either.
And Maddox is just trying to push peoples' buttons....though he is a hoot, sometimes. *lol* I don't believe he means a word of what he says, really.
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Date: 2004-10-15 02:59 pm (UTC)From:I wasn't going to say anything, what with all the tributes to him on my flist, but, well, yeah. You never really hear of anyone's unheroic efforts to battle whatever handicap du jour they have (unless you read The Onion, anyway). And he was lucky he happened to be wealthy enough to afford all the treatments that he so bravely struggled through, as well as contribute to the cause of helping others with the same issue. Does this make him a hero? Or rather, any more heroic than a sturggling person who can't do anything more than just stay alive?
On the other hand, he shouldn't be condemned for having a personal interest in the cause he's helping to support, either.
And Maddox is just trying to push peoples' buttons....though he is a hoot, sometimes. *lol* I don't believe he means a word of what he says, really.