Thank you, Contessa, for sharing your wonderfully illuminating insights.  I am in complete agreement: the young are, indeed, brave and unselfish.  Thankfully, some adults are, too.  I suppose all of us could be brave and unselfish again, to the extent we become willing to see with our hearts instead of our heads.  Seems to me the pressures of life (and, to a large extent, peer expectations) cast long, dark shadows of status quo against the great wall of inertia.  We find it difficult to make out the lines that separate right from 'not-so-right.'  In the darkness, we have found fear and we have lost our sense of other-centeredness ... all because we have misplaced the courage of our youth.  Let us remember the young are forever looking up to us for example.  They may not admit it.  We may not see it.  What matters, of course, is not what we see but, instead, what it is THEY see.  How many of us would set aside (e.g., risk) our 'bottom line' (personal, professional, or otherwise) to do what Mallory did?  Is Mallory's action, even among her peers, the rule or, sadly, the exception?  What are we teaching them?  What are they 'un-learning?'  If we want them to retain their courage, we must first be courageous.  If we want them to discover the serving nature of leadership, we must first serve.  If we want them to realize leadership without love is no leadership at all, we must first love.  Purity and simplicity, for all, lies just beyond the shadows.