Questions to Ponder:
1) Teddy turned on the TV and was shocked to hear the news. Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles. "I can't believe it, growing up in Los Angeles, Kobe was our hero!" His girlfriend Tracy came in to the room to hear what was the commotion. "Hero, you call Kobe Bryant a hero?" she said. "He was born tall and athletic and could put a ball in a hoop. And besides, he was a rapist, and an adulterer. Is that the type of person you want to go down in history as a hero?" Who do you think is right?
2) Samantha was a student at the University of Chicago and was enrolled in an ancient literature course as part of her general core electives. The teacher was delivering a class on heroes in the ancient world and said, "Heroes in antiquity were very different than what we consider heroes today. In the ancient world, they did their acts for personal glory, everlasting honor and were mostly on the quest for personal benefit." Samantha grew up Jewish in Highland Park and started remembering all those stories from the Torah in Sunday school. Who were Jewish heroes anyways and were they really self serving and chasing their own glory like her teacher said?
3) Dr. Khatri moved from India to the US to attend Northwestern medical school and after finishing his residency in ophthalmology, he took a position as an eye surgeon in a Jewish owned clinic in Glenview. The clinic had been around for 30 years, and the two founders, Dr. Robinson and Dr. Cohen were scaling back approaching retirement and brought in a new physician to pick up some of the work load. Unfortunately, the work dynamic did not work out and the two senior doctors were forced to terminate the employment of Dr. Khatri. A month later, the clinic received notice that it was under investigation for Medicaid fraud. Turns out that Dr. Khatri had noticed a technical violation in billing that the clinic was doing in favor of patients who had a gap in insurance and reported this to the state immediately after his termination. The case went to court and the clinic was fined a total of 1.2 million dollars plus legal fees. Dr. Khatri, as a whistle blower, received 30% of the total earnings of the case. He felt he went down as a hero, protecting public funds and maintaining the law. Dr. Robinson and Dr. Cohen consider him a villain, who do you think is right?
1. True Heroes Serve Others
2. True Heroes Are Extraordinary
3. True Heroes Take Risks And Face Potential Loss
4. True Heroes Are Self-sacrificing
5. True Heroes Are Courageous
6. True Heroes Are Usually Humble