Reply #37: Even if they are nothing special as human beings

[Raskolnik]

we nevertheless ask very, very special things from them. I don't think you can deny that they are asked to perform an extremely difficult job (often for relatively little money) that we absolutely could not function as a society without. When one of them fails in that job, it has terrible consequences. But that doesn't change the fact that every day there are literally thousands of examples of those people performing their duties well, to the great benefit of the rest of us who are allowed to go about our business in greater safety.