Do we still need heroes?

I feel that we do not need heroes. This is because what we truly need is the independence to work alone. What the society needs nowadays is not a single source of strength and contributions, but the unity of the society as a whole. Last but not least, the heroes in many people's eyes are the ones shown on movies, which may create a wrong imaginary denfination of a hero.

Firstly, what we truly need is the independence to work alone, and not to rely on others. In an experiment made by the Ministry of denfence, it says that " only three hours after the suspicious bag had been placed in the MRT station had someone informed the police". However, survey shown that "nearly 70% knew what to do when such a situation arises". This shows that there are so many residents of Singapore that severely lacked the wariness and often relied on others, thinking that others will do the job. This is largely due to the thinking that the government will do the job,resulting in the long term reliance of the residents. With the dependence of heroes, people will become complacent and thus turn to the hazardous of the society.

With the idea of the need of heroes, it will mean the agreement of the single source of strength. However, what a society need is the unity of all the people, to work together as a whole. From my personal experience, during the combined sports meet, my class participated in every single event, even though he may not be the best in that event. Eventually, my class emerged as the champion. It was not due to the fact that we had better althetics, however, it was due to the accumulated total score that helped us to emerge as champion. Whereas for some other classes, they had very good athletic, but merely relying on those only, would be unable to get them enough accumulated scores, since no matter how good the athletic is, he could only play well in a number of sports and not all. This had proved that unity is more important than having heroes, since people of different pros will be accumulated to become better than a single hero.

Lastly, people, especially kids may have the wrong perspective on the idea of "hero". Children, when exposed to movies like spiderman or superman, they are easily absorbed into the grphics and the violence. Even though the movies are meant to produce the idea of heroic acts and acts of justice. However, children are most likely unable to interpret those ideas and concepts. With the survey made, nearly 85% of the children responded that it is because spiderman can fight, and is heroic. However, they had misunderstood and relate heroic and violence together. In such a case, the idea of heroic is not reflected properly. If such concept continues, it can turn the future generations of adults to become violent, causing a lot of social problems.

In conclusion there should be independence in very being and unity in every society. The strength of a single person will be very limited, since there will be no one that is perfect. However, as a group, the pros and cons of different people will be put together to form a greater support. The misconceptions of heros may not seem to be a great problem, but could actually deliver a potential problem.