A hero is someone who suffers for a sympathetic cause. The suffering can be abstracted to ‘takes risk’ or ‘sacrifices something’, but the sympathy is mandatory. If the audience doesn’t think the cause is “good”, that’s not a hero, it’s a villain.
It doesn’t require success, or even reasonable hope of success, only the suffering and the sympathetic cause.
Don’t be a hero. Instead, do what gives you the best world.
A hero is someone who suffers for a sympathetic cause. The suffering can be abstracted to ‘takes risk’ or ‘sacrifices something’, but the sympathy is mandatory. If the audience doesn’t think the cause is “good”, that’s not a hero, it’s a villain.
It doesn’t require success, or even reasonable hope of success, only the suffering and the sympathetic cause.
Don’t be a hero. Instead, do what gives you the best world.