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Me and caterpillars

The TV program "The Hero" asks if you can volunteer your friends with a certain fear to go on the show while the world watches them make asses of themselves getting over their fears.  Or presumably die trying while successfully having made asses of themselves getting over their fears.  Or just opt for death rather than face their fears, national TV be damned.  One, if you were a true friend, you wouldn't do that, two, if you were a true friend, you really, really, wouldn't do that.  Come on.  There is no way to justify that to the friend you just volunteered to go on TV.  "I'm doing this for your sake, that fear is unhealthy.  Maybe the pressure of being watched by two million people will cure you.  You know I care.  I care a lot" goes against all the rules of decency, friendship, and logic.  The same could be said of any other reality show, which has none of those rules, or any rule whatsoever. My friends, because they are my friends, would not want