Flawless Heroes?
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It is important for youth to have heroes but society cannot ignore the
facts and only report on the good side of those heroes. Everyone is human, and
they are going to make mistakes. Hopefully they learn from those mistakes, and
if those mistakes are brought to light and conveyed to the young peo ....
Middle of paper
.... a productive part of society.
Today's young people are in search of heroes as Mr. Gibbon suggests, but
every person is going to have some skeletons in their closet, hero or no hero.
To ask society to ignore the facts just so young people can feel that these
people are perfectly squeaky clean is wrong. Society cannot lie to them. There
is some value to teaching reality even though Mr. Gibbon doesn't seem to think
so.
Mr. Gibbon mentions that there is some sort of "tradition of exemplary
live ....
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