This
is, of course, a matter of personal opinion. Your answer will depend on your definition of a
hero and on how much bad a person can do and still be considered a hero. My own view is that
Columbus is not a hero.
To me, a hero is someone who knowingly does something
that benefits humankind and who does so for reasons other than personal gain. I do not feel
that Columbus meets any of these criteria.
We can certainly argue that
discovering America, on balance, helped humankind. It definitely harmed the natives of the
Americas, but it greatly benefitted the Europeans who came to the Americas as colonists. The
creation of the United States (which came about because of the discovery of...
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