Law and Order

     Actors make their careers by portraying characters in different scenarios for the entertainment of the audience. As simple as it sounds, the best of them can make millions doing just one film or television series, playing the good cop, the hunky doctor, or the fearless firefighter. 

     Acting is all fine and dandy, but why, if they are making millions playing these characters, don't the real life heroes get all the same pay, respect and recognition as they do? Police officers can go to work everyday with the risk of not coming back home to their family, and yet they fade into the background in news and gossip because the acts they do are something they do everyday. As unfortunate as it sounds, their acts are forgotten and lost in comparison to what happened on the last episode of Law and Order or CSI. 

     Police officers are not the only heroes actors make millions of dollars impersonating, for doctors, firefighters and other emergency responser personnel are also mimicked. Why is joe-actor making so much money doing a completely safe job impersonating real life, day to day extraordinary human beings who make less then half? Is there not something morally wrong with the whole situation? Actors can do all the acting they want, but in the end, what kind of affect are they really having on the lives of everyday people? 

     I think that is the most important thing to be considered. Actors on average can be absolutely horrendous role models for young children and teens, or even adults. But the police officer in your home town, the doctor at you city hospital or the firefighter in your local fire station are the ones that really make the difference, and should be recognized with the level of respect and admiration deserved for their acts.