The Superheroes' Appology - part 1

I have a theory - I have several, truth be told, but if I start telling them all at once, God save all souls around me.
BUT
I have a theory regarding superheros.

I think that the world needs superheros. As imaginary and make-believe they are, we do need them. Even though we all know the reality is far from the world of moving pictures, I think we do need them. Despite the three digits IQ, it still feels nice and comfortable thinking about ordinary looking people who can do extraordinary things. It is not suspending belief until we reach the level of self-harm. It is suspending belief until reaching the level when we can surpass our innate selfishness and start thinking about ourselves in the context of a community and we might just do something else for someone we don't really know, without any profit for us coming out of it all. That is superhero stuff.

We will never fly by ourselves (or if we will, than we will be radically different from what we are now). We won't get mutated to the point of shooting spider-threads from our wrists. We won't be able to stretch out of our physical abilities. We won't alter too much of our physical being. But it is said to be faced with an alternate reality when only such abilities prompts a human being to think about the others, don't you think? Comics are considered to be children stories. As is Harry Potter, who is not exactly a superhero, but he is very dear to me and he really helped me escape a much too cruder at the time reality. I say that they are not entirely childish, as many would treat them. I think that they are better variants of a normal human being. And don't we all aspire to be better at a certain point in our lives?

Sure, it is not entirely fair to ask of people to be better when they lack basic things, like material comfort, a house, a job, a better job, a fulfilled need to be appreciated, love, respect, a decent life... How can you think of others when your life is not what you heard it should be, what the society you live in gave you the image of, and really, now, if we come to think about it, until we consider ourselves fulfilled, we can't really start doing good for others. Unless, of course, we are not quite all "there".

So, logically, it can't be but a superhero the person who, although experiencing a not very fulfilled life, can still think of someone else but himself.