"people will find all sorts of ways to believe what they want to believe, to avoid hearing things that they don’t want to hear, and to avoid thinking about things that are too worrisome to contemplate"
Goodkind certainly didn't want to hear that he was a subpar example of a human being. And he wrote fantasy, regardless of how much he whinged that he absolutely didn't.
Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)