Reply #50: You are right, I was adding in another usage of a word peeves [View All]

[uppityperson]

I am not equating combat deaths with accidents, although some are accidental deaths and others are killed on purpose. I was talking abut the usage of the word "hero", it being misused and demeaned for those who are truly heros.

It gets used, in my opinion, far too often for people who die in tragic accidents (another semantic, how could an accident be not tragic, but anyway) and for people who are killed in their line of work, like military, emergency, so on. Some of these people are heros, some just in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you take work that puts your life on the line, that is an accepted work condition for you and the mere act of your dying does not make you a hero. It is what you do while you are alive that makes you a hero. I wrote elsewhere on this topic more about heros, am too tired to look it all up and copy it on this # post again.

There are people on DU, as most forums, that espouse different, strongly held opinions and it can be difficult to have a polite discussion about our strong feelings. I find that the best way to figure out what someone is saying is take a couple back and forths, double check, because it is easy to be misunderstood on forums.

However, I am finishing up on DU for tonight. I will be back on tomorrow and will continue then, if you wish.

Peace