The outright selfishness of Lane, Humphries et al. is mind blowing, and publicly advocating for it would (in the modern world) rightly lead to ostracism in any

The outright selfishness of Lane, Humphries et al. is mind blowing, and publicly advocating for it would (in the modern world) rightly lead to ostracism in any other context. It is nothing more and nothing less than "I suffered, so you should suffer, too" -- the same attitude that keeps the "culture" of female genital mutilation alive.