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Normal People Who Do Extraordinary Things Are My Heroes

Normal people, the average ones we see every day, who do extraordinary things are my heroes. The ones who save people. Firefighters, nurses, teachers, a good chef, a kind stranger. These are the kind of people who give richness and add a texture to American life with all its quirks and quandaries that makes this a great nation.

There is so much goodness out there. There is almost a supra-abundance of people who struggle are contradicted but who still manage to overcome the the things that hold them back to do really remarkable things in this life. In this sense, I admire not only the people who live within the accepted norms of the social order, but people as diverse as lesbians, Hispanics, auto-workers, CEO's, heavy lifting longshoremen, tractor trailer drivers, guys who have little hanging testicles on their monster truck and people in the Coast Guard who have to protect us everyday.

I admire dentists for their ability and skill in transplanting teeth, and people from every walk of life. A human community must be large enough to include both the happy drunk, and the absent-minded albeit brilliant professor, from transsexuals in a Las Vegas show to noble statesmen.

We live in the largest, most diverse and hopefully most tolerant nation on earth. I think it is the fundamental goal of all people who subscribe to any aspect of libertarianism to ensure that all of them and their rights are equally protected so that the human potential they have has time and space to mature.

No one expresses this feeling more deeply and more humanely than Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass. I hope that what we do is to ensure these rights to everyone, it is idealism, sure it is, but without idealism there would be nothing worth striving for.

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