Maybe they just hope so, so they aren't TOO different.
Or, maybe they see human beings as usually fixated on one thing or another.
I like your comment that a vice covers up pain, Katie. That's very insightful. You give me something to ponder.
Yet I have wondered about focussing on ailments and 'protocols', to the exclusion of just trusting our instincts to find our best ways by intuition...harmony and serendipity.
There's a balance in there somewhere, isn't there?
But, how do we learn if we don't make a conscious effort to try?