Heroes are respectable. Police officers keep our communities safe. Fire fighters put out fires and retrieve kitties stuck in trees. Doctors save lives. Parents pass on their morals to children. But that's just the good side of things.
What would a hero be without something to be heroic for? In a sense, police officers need crime; burning buildings call for extinguishers; the ill need caring for; children need to misbehave in order to be taught the differences between right and wrong.
Everyone wants to grow up to be something or someone with outwardly good intentions . Truthfully speaking, some of us just want to do something only for us. I'm not saying which is better because the former is not always an honest statement. Someone can claim all they want that they want to become a doctor to perform lifesaving surgeries, but if patients were always healthy (as is the goal of doctors to treat sickness) there would be no job for doctors. This kind of reasoning applies to all those we consider heroic deeds.
We simply CANNOT live in a perfect world where the concept of bad or evil does not exist. In truth, it is the very bad that drives us to be/do good. Don't just complain about all the nonsensical evil in this world and instead, derive goodness from it by exploring the far reaching limits of humanity. Embrace the imperfect world we were born to live in.
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