In a nutshell, your comment illustrates well the issue facing many western nations. The uniqueness of an individual is somehow extended to being applicable to t

In a nutshell, your comment illustrates well the issue facing many western nations. The uniqueness of an individual is somehow extended to being applicable to the average person, and then folks hand-wring about why things seem to be trending in a bad direction. Sure, Paul Farmer was special, but most people are not. To make any policy, or social conditioning, that is fine for an individual but bad for a collective, can result in some pretty terrible consequences, most critically this recent drive to discourage folks from having children due to whatever made-up reason, or cling onto power until others have to pry it from one's cold dead hands.