WTC - egalitarianism taken to the extreme

[miko2d]

If you want to compete for a design for the World Trade Center Memorial (http://www.renewnyc.com), do not bother to submit any project that would acknowlege the dead policemen or friefighters by rank or even to imply the rescuers were heroes or doing their duty. That is forbidden by the memorial's board.

 What if some future visitor to the memorial dastardly decides to to honor a firefighter or a policemen to the detriment of some office worker? Can't have that.

 As far as the commission is concerned, they are all victims. Alternately, all victims may be automatically promoted to heroes, without having actually done anything heroic. You get the grade for participation, not for result or effort. Wouldn't want to promote inequality, would we?

 miko

[Fishu]

What a weird memorial board, I wonder why they've came to such conclusion.

What comes to promoting victims as heroes, I see it as western model for 'martyres'

I'm bit oldist but in my opinion the term 'hero' should be used in conjucation with something what was done - in this case the civilian casualties weren't "heroes", but very sadly victims of a terrorist attack, while the rescue workers were the "heroes", whos of many by the way were heroes from many times before on the line of duty.

It doesn't lessen the civilian casualties status were they promoted as heroes or not.
I don't find it right to call them heroes though, it just doesn't make sense by what the 'hero' means.


Flame me away, dunt care.