Mocking Achilles.

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Fair enough.  Especially if you simply go by the story.  A story, written by a king's man, who had to fear that king or his contemporary kin or replacement.  Based, as well, on divine interventions according to said writers, from men who currently hold no such truck with said interventions.

As well, declining to acknowledge Achilles, while supporting Hector?  The one who lost?  I am thinking, that is less than beta.

As to the men, their morals, their capacities, and truths regarding them?  In a time before Christ?  Men were fallen.  And, either you accepted their heroes, as they were, or you defeated them, that was the way it was.  To judge them by the standards of Catholicism or even weakened Christian churchianity... be nice-ism, is a fail.

Was Achilles, or even Hector, a great man?  No, not really.  They were the elite of their day.  Pick a general today, examine him.  The one who wants critical race theory in the military?  The ones who want more women in the service, and in combat roles?  Post Christian, at the least, certainly not militarily sound, not even sane.  If I had to choose, moderns would lose.

But, no, they were heroes of old.  Some say nephilim.  Men of great renown.  Sons of the sons of God.  Damned, doomed simply by their blood, with no choice in that.  Though I doubt if they would have chosen otherwise in any case.  Pride is strong with the one who lead to their making.  It flows through our veins.  Even when God calls one such, the cost is... high.  I don't think health and God's call can both be had, heard, at once.

Anyway.  Mock as you will.  Neither were great men, as we might consider them today.  Neither is any alpha, today, a great man.  A cad, probably.  A poor father.  A cheat at much of what he does, even if he tends toward the right... he fails.  As to sigmas?  Could be called selfish, greedy, loners.  And... not always completely off the mark, no matter if with lofty goals.  As I have learned from Catholicism, the right truths of it, it isn't the intention.  It is that, plus the method, and on to the results.  If all are not good, then none of it is good.

If you want good men, do not look to literature, new or old.  Don't look to heroes, leaders, kings, or the powerful.  If, too, don't look to their lessors.  There was, after much searching, exactly One who has walked these lands Who deserves a hero's respect.  And we murdered Him, with our sins or wills.

Cast your stones at Achilles, and perhaps fairly.  But... know the fulfillment of it.  You... live in a glass house, of lessor quality.  He yet lives, and, yet, he paid the price for being remembered.  Jealousy doesn't suit small man.  It is easily seen.  Petty.  Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.  Amen.