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a normal person who simply forgot to wait for someone else to act
means A person admired for courage, noble deeds, or great achievements — or the central figure of a story.
from From Greek hērōs, which named the great warriors and demigods of myth — figures like Heracles, half-mortal and half-divine, who stood between humans and gods. It passed through Latin heros into English. The sandwich sense is a separate, much later American coinage, possibly because the loaf was big enough to feed a hero's appetite.
- word origin
- Greek for protector, originally part-god demigods
- trauma cost
- rescuers often suffer PTSD after the praise fades
- brain quirk
- most heroes report acting before thinking entirely
- sandwich name
- the hero sub fed working-class New Yorkers cheap
- bystander math
- more witnesses means lower odds anyone helps
achilles — trojan war warrior whose heel was his only vulnerability, central to homer's iliad
joan of arc — french peasant girl who led military victories in 1429-1431 and was burned at stake
nelson mandela — south african leader imprisoned 27 years, ended apartheid, president 1994-1999