Ah...I am disappointed with this response. A sacrifice of heroic proportions is altogether forgotten, when the do-er makes claim to his own nobility
I think you may have misunderstood me. What I am getting at is an idea that the heroic sacrificer
displays nobility if the sacrifice is from his own good will, but not if it is merely from fear of a god or anything else.
I any case, why should heroism be forgotten, no matter what its motivation?
I'd like to offer another similar example, if you will indulge me. On a camping trip, someone commented to the effect that a tree we were enjoying looking at displayed God's glory. I found that I preferred to allow the tree the diginity of its and its ancestors' own histories and successful struggles for survival.