Indeed. I knew this kind of comment would come up, which is why I tried to address it at the beginning.

The point I really want to make is that for all that people talk about how fantastic he was and how he should have been canonized etc. -- he was just a guy who decided to do that. There's nothing stopping anyone else from doing that, from being nice and going the extra mile for other people.

There isn't some intrinsic quality that prevents anyone from being like that other than the decision to, well, do that.