> The problem with hero worship is that we disregard and apologize for our heroes' flaws when we wouldn't do that for the person sitting next to us. Isn't that

> The problem with hero worship is that we disregard and apologize for our heroes' flaws when we wouldn't do that for the person sitting next to us. Isn't that basically "refusing to believe that humans can be flawed"? We apply different standards to "heroes" and to regular human beings, while they are both regular human beings.