Talk:Chizome Akaguro/@comment-198.72.245.107-20151104062710/@comment-125.131.235.130-20151124033109

Unfortunately, that's the kind of establishment needed to attract a critical mass of people taking up the profession.

It's the same reason doctors are paid so well and hold prestige. If only doctors who had pure-hearted goals of saving people were allowed to take up the profession, we'd have a shortage of doctors. We compromise by paying them well and putting them in a semi-celebrity status.

Also, motivation is usually trumped by skill. As long as some sort of moral compass is maintained, someone who is incredibly skilled but only doing it for the money will be a better doctor than someone who is mediocre but loves to save people's lives.

In fact, I have heard quite a few people say it might actually be better for doctors to have secondary motivations because it can be particularly depressing to want to save people but have to deal with dying patients (no doctor is perfect and just general mortality).

If a hero had the pure-hearted motivation of saving people, how would he emotionally handle failing to save people sometimes? Because in a non-fictional world, you can't save everyone.