Which is ironic, because they are NOT demonstrating the power of friendship.
He followed it up with a demand that the government make other people pay for his medical care:
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Honestly, Lou's one of those cases where I can see both the pros and the cons of "universal healthcare".
On the con side, government healthcare isn't as great as people think, and it's incredibly unfair to make, say, working class families pay out of pocket so that a fat Italian man who hates them can keep eating pizza for another few years.
On the plus side, once healthcare becomes everyone's duty,
health becomes everyone's duty. Right now, Lou is free to be a lazy fatass, because his lifestyle doesn't effect anyone else; it's his life, his choice, his burden to bear. Once Lou's health becomes a collective burden, however, he no longer has that ethical luxury. Lou's "right" to eat pizza suddenly conflicts with everyone else's right to life, liberty, and property. Every pound he gains is money being taken away from children with cancer. Every bowl of spaghetti he eats is directly contributing to the death of grandparents with Covid.
In the short term, Lou would probably benefit from the forcible redistribution of income towards himself and his own health problems. But in the long term, once healthcare becomes a collective duty, the state has the right (and even the moral obligation) to force Lou to stop living the way he does.
If you're curious, the
news article has a picture of a hedgehog. I don't think it's the one who exploded - that little critter is likely 90% vaporized - but I'm assuming it's dead?