Charles Ramsey is still a hero. His own domestic violence record doesn't negate what he did to free

[sibelian]

17. We don't label people heroes because it's "necessary".

We label people heroes because that's how we feel.

Do you know who I think is a hero?

Pee Wee Herman.

Why?

Because he's a freakish weirdo. But not just that - he's a freakish weirdo who clearly realised at an early age that he's nothing like anyone else on the planet and is a ridiculous creature. But instead of coiling up inside himself like flinching wimp and trying to run away from himself and his ridiculousness he opened himself out and built a career out of essentially saying "Oh, my god. Look at ME everyone... I'm just fucking RIDICULOUS!!!", or variants thereof and made a huge, beautiful public comedy of himself, reassuring everyone that all the silliness of being human is in fact a good thing and nothing to coil up around.

I say HEROIC.

But that's just me. There's no reason for you to find it heroic. What you find inspiring will depend on YOUR emotional makeup.

I think Charles Ramsay is heroic. Not because it's necessary for me to do so, I just do. It's because he's honest and humble and appears to have accepted himself and he *helped* someone. These, to me, are heroic things. If you choose other personal attributes to call heroic, so be it and more power to you. Your heart is yours to follow.