Lance Armstrong VS Herbert Spencer

I gave up having heroes who are still breathing and alive, just gave up. They conduct their lives in such a way that, eventually, they disappoint me, and frankly I don´t want to be hurt anymore.
That is why I am giving up on Lance Armstrong. But don´t take me wrong, I still admire his courage as a cancer survivor and as the great cyclist that he was for 7 years in the Tour de France.
But let us not forget that many other professional cyclists were fantastic not only in the Tour de France but in all Grand Tours, and others, they shined in many international professional cycling races and the Grand Tours too. Lance Armstrong only focused on the Tour de France, and he did great, no doubt, and for that he still has my admiration but he is not my hero anymore.


People who have passed away and have left a legacy of knowledge and accomplishments are now in my admiration book. They are dead, they cannot disappoint me anymore. So there. I choose Herbert Spencer to be my new subject of study, and I will be focusing my attention on him for everything he did and said.
I am still learning about him, his life, his assays, writings, etc.

For now, I will just leave you with a beautiful quote of his:


"Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insane inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honor should be somewhat changed."