How do you Define Heroism?

[AntiochusIII]

A Animal can always be replace... your 3 year old son can't

The animal also dies. Once. Besides, heroism is, by nature, sentimentality and effort, not results -- the less instinctively required, the more effort it takes for one to act for others' sake; the more heroic.

Big, How is jumping on a grenade to save the very same people who trying to kill you heroic? Personally, I rather die from the grenade then save the POW's..

Then you are not quite as heroic as the person who dares to save Prisoners of War. Every soldier in a war at one point or another probably have come to the realization that there might come a time where they will have to die in order for their comrades to live. Moreover, it is easier to fight for someone whom you know is also fighting with you.

How many fight for those who themselves cannot fight? For those who might fight you back? How many gives that other cheek so many Christians so lightly claim they will?

It takes pure heroism and nobility of spirit to save the enemy. I myself know I don't have that kind of spirit.