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Originally Posted by alphamale
Parks wasn't a "hero" - I'm tired of that word being trivialized. She simply stood up for her rights, at the cost of being penalized for a misdemeanor. An example of heros are american soldiers who fight the IFs every day.
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What's an IF?
*shrug* There are a lot of words that are trivialized though overuse, and hero is one of them. To me, though, civil disobedience is heroic. Military service might be more heroic in the sense that it incurs a greater potential risk, but it also lacks the soical stigma associated with standing up for an unpopular cause simply because it's right.