It is something I would not have minded having before, although I would not trade what I had for it.

[He rests his chin on his knuckle, smirking. He's decided it's time to play Devil's Advocate.]

While we cannot escape the fact that each individual must be responsible for who they are, can we not say that the society around them owes them some leniency? After all, those bound to be mundane will only have the mundane to work with.