“…In fact, authors have argued that 'close-by' exemplars (in terms of one's everyday experience) are more likely to trigger admiration and the desire to emulate than more 'distant' saints who 'might look too far away from our ordinary experience and hence appear to be less imitable' (Croce & Vaccarezza, 2017, p. 13). Croce and Vaccarezza (2017) argue that heroes, who display one or two virtues to an exceptional degree, are more 'imitable' than saints, who are flawless without qualification (see also, Zagzebski, 2017, chapter 3).…”