Exosuit Savior

There once was a wealthy man with a crippled child.  He asked two friends for help.

The first friend said that with sufficient funding he could build an exosuit for the child that would move his body around as if he were not crippled.  With the proper programming, the exosuit could even cause the boy’s body to move through complicated motions like a dance.

The other friend said he would prefer to try a difficult course of surgeries and especially of physical therapy.  It might not work, but if it did the boy’s body would be healed.  The boy would be able to move of himself.  He would dance instead of being danced.

The first friend scoffed at the pain and risk involved, but the wealthy man chose the second friend anyway.