Reply To: An insight into human nature in The Madness of Crowds
“I’m so afraid.” … “That I won’t love her enough, that I won’t be a good father. That I’m not up to this.” Jean-Guy finally confesses his deepest fears about his Down Syndrome daughter, Idola. He is ashamed that he feels at times they should have aborted her. He fears he will not be the father she will need him to be. He fears for his son Honore who will be responsible for Idola when her parents no longer are living. Abigail’s theory (plan) to save Canada brings all these emotions boiling to the surface for Jean-Guy. At the end of the book Jean-Guy proves what kind of man he is, what kind of father he is and will continue to be, by the decision he makes under very stressful circumstances. I can’t imagine a society that would allow their government to make eugenics and mandatory euthanasia of the elderly policy. What in the world have we become if we permit that to happen?