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

[matt819]

31. Can we stop with the hero worship?

Yes, Mr. Ramsey and the other guy, whose name I can't recall at the moment, were not heroes.

They were ordinary people who did a good thing at a critical moment. That's good. We even have a name for such people. Good Samaritans. (And please don't parse the biblical meaning of samaritan.) True, this is more than some might have done at the same time, but it still doesn't make them heroes. Mr. Ramsey has it right.

Let's try this variation (without assault rifles and swat teams). Let's say someone suspected something was wrong in that house. Doesn't matter who did the suspecting or what it was that caused the suspicion, just that something was "off." This person calls the police, who visit and say everything's fine. And let's go further and say this scenario is repeated several times. Still no joy from the police. Still the nagging suspicion. Then this curious citizen decides to take things into his own hands and enters the house, not knowing what he'll find, and risking criminal prosecution if he's wrong (or even if he's right), and finds the three women and girl and frees them. In my book, that warrants the hero designation.

Can we let this discussion drop?