Eric Snowden; Hero or Villain

     To begin, it is necessary to know who Eric Snowden. Eric Snowden, along with the WikiLeaks group, were responsible for the mass surveillance disclosures in 2013. Basically, he exposed to NSA for having illegally and secretively spied on the US' international partners and others. Eric Snowden was an ex-NSA contractor, and after having finished working there, he leaked top secret information about spying with the help of the aforementioned WikiLeaks group. To many, he is seen as a hero because he exposed, what some people call, an evil act committed by the NSA, but to others he is seen as a traitor for the same exact reason, he exposed and leaked top secret information about the NSA.
    In the syllogism, the first premise is, "All heroes deserve freedom." The first problematic word in that phrase is heroes. Hero can be seen as sort of an opinion based title. There is no specific parameter for something or someone to be considered a hero. Does a hero have to save a life, or commit a valiant deed (valiant is also and opinion), does he have to put himself in danger in order to help someone else? No, none of these things were specified. There are just some things that cannot and will never be able to be objectively judged, all in the same way. Just like hero cannot be judged, nor can freedom.  Google defines freedom as, "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint." The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines freedom as, "the quality or state of being free." While somewhat vague, you can tell that there are many different interpretations for the word freedom. My personal definition of freedom is most likely different from the definition of freedom of the person sitting next to me. Again, another definition that cannot be written in stone. But unlike hero, freedom has sort of the same overall general meaning across different people and interpretations. It can validly be said that freedom is the right to do and say what you wish, as long as it is legal. And the biggest problem of all comes when the idea of hero and freedom are combined. When the impossible task of validly judging whether someone is a hero or not is combined with the impossibly defined idea of freedom, it because impossible to find a hero who is worthy and deserving of freedom because you just cannot tell if a hero is a hero and if the freedom he is getting is actually freedom.
     The second part of the syllogism is a declarative statement, firmly showing that Eric Snowden is a hero. Obviously, we cannot just simply say that Eric Snowden is a hero. There is no way to say if he is a hero or not. All it takes is one person to say that Eric Snowden is not a hero for that fact to become opinion. Eric Snowden being a hero is purely opinion based and is not something that can be validly measured and decided.
     Once again, a combination of the three aspects, hero, freedom and Eric Snowden. This killer combination cannot really be explained and or measured. No one can easily say what a hero is, and whether that hero deserves freedom and what kind of freedom, and then to say if Eric Snowden is a hero and what kind of freedom, if any, does he deserve.