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Re:Sci-Hub as Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience by aaron-lebo on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:54PM (#14633953)
"True heroism" is raising your kid well because it's the right thing to do even though nobody except your kid and maybe grandkid will ever know what you did.

These people have gotten their acknowledgments (as they should), let's not act like they are nobodies in the shadow of history. You're reading about them on HN precisely because media knows who they are. How many people have documentaries made about them after they are dead?

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Re:Sci-Hub as Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience by Brede on Monday June 26, 2017 @04:37AM (#14635060)
The default is to raise your kids well, anything else is subpar.
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Re:Sci-Hub as Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience by nsaslideface on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:17PM (#14640462)
I understand where you're coming from, but I was more focusing on the difference between a household name (e.g. MLK, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela) verses being the subject of a footnote or a chapter in books that are only read by graduate students. I meant heroism in terms of securing advances for the whole human race or an entire country, rather than being a hero to another individual or family...two meanings of the word "hero" that can't be compared.
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Re:Sci-Hub as Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience by aaron-lebo on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:48AM (#14642826)
You're right.
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