The idea of hero or heroine has, at its core, a question of the nature of life - that is, is the norm that of catastrophes and thus requiring a view of the sacrifice of the individual as hero, or is it that of a sum-plus view with the hero as the trader, the inventor, the one who proceeds to enrich and not merely to show ways out of whatever difficulties but to show how to proceed in learning on one's own how to see these ways out of difficulties.... in other words, not to see sacrifice as the proper method of heroics but to see instead a non-coercive and enriching, a flourishing methodology ....