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For me the most important quality a role model should invoke is hope, whether that be in the current system and how things can run or the hope that things can change for the better. Whether it be fictional characters or real people the most inspiring characters are the people who try to in some way create change in a seemingly hopeless world and struggle through to make the world better not necessarily even for themselves but for everyone around them, it's also thus what snake oil salesmen and other such hope merchants inevitably prey upon. They are preying on your hope for a better world or your hope to get something out of you whether that is power or just monetary benefits.

Hope is something that everyone wishes to cling to as a quality but that people seem to have started reducing down to a transactional thing. When it's anything but that, the people who bring hope always do so at great cost to themselves. People who try to sell hope are people who try and put on a façade that they are helping you out of genuinely good intentions even when they aren't. They are just trying to use your feelings of despair to lure you out.

Anyway that's enough about hope from me what do you think of when you hear the word hope.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's definitely natural sources but it's still disappointing to see guys like Andrew Tate and others like him.