I think that people with challenges such as your hero, that are of a magnitude that require specialist care all day, every day, are those who are deserving of a place somewhere (I hesitate to use the loaded word "institution") that is able and willing to provide the professional service and care that they require. The parents of such children do, in my eyes, have a right to their own lives and pursuit of happiness - the burden of seeing one's child in such a state is heavy enough.

I also think that it behoves the State to spend a little less on security and military theatre, and a little more on this sort of thing.