Don't be a hero.
So, Dustin Hoffman like saved a guy's life. Awesome. And remember that one time Harrison Ford swooped in from his helicopter to save that Boy Scout who got lost in the woods? It's a real thing. Not all celebrities are of the selfish jerk variety. In fact, such an attitude of jerkitude very rarely gets you far at all. Whenever they talk about the time they did something heroic, heroes always hold that anyone would have done the same thing in their situation. A hero is the kind of person who would think that, wouldn't they? So, heroism is a mindset. It's not something you do, it's something you are. Or something you think.
We don't envy our heroes. One of the reasons we loathe our villains is because they use their powers for evil instead of good, though we are able to recognize ourselves in them. The best villains show the worst in us. We know that we would probably do the same thing in their position. We look up to our heroes because they're better than we.
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