Real heroes, who risk their lives to save others, do not demand adulation.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/114326
The compassionate perspective sits easily with modern egalitarianism
They specifically disavow any status of superiority as a result of their heroic deeds.
Their reticence in relation to their own exploits is itself a tacit acknowledgment that they understand the greatness of their particular achievement; Otherwise, they could talk matter-of-factly about what they had done. But this taciturn self-consciousness is a long way from the towering ambition that gave rise to the tragic hero of the classical age—the ultimately unsatisfiable desire to rise above the human.
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