I have cancer. I’m open about it. This medicaid funding shit could literally kill me.
I am so sick of people suggesting I should “pull a Luigi” or “go out like a hero” because they still have things to lose so they don’t want to stand up and lose them. So because I’m gonna die, I should say fuck it and risk it all for a bunch of jerks who wouldn’t and haven’t done the same for me?
Do you have any idea how disrespectful that is to people who are already suffering? When nobody is standing up to sacrifice themselves to save the weak, broken, sick, and disabled? Why’s it our job to save the able bodied? Why can’t these people see that even though they think their heart is in the right place, they’re still basically telling us “your life sucks anyway and will end soon, you should throw it away for the rest of us who never did anything for you” or more simply “kys.”
I’m officially tired of this inconsiderate and frankly ableist bullshit.
Honestly, I wish some mods or admins would make some rules about it since it’s ableist.
Yes. Not at all.
Do it, don’t do it, whatever floats your boat. It’s not your job to save anyone, and nobody will think less of you for not.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I, personally, think less of you for whining about it.
Yeah, imagine whining about your access to healthcare being taken away. Imagine whining about people telling you to murder CEOs to get your healthcare back.
Clearly you’ve faced similar tribulations, otherwise you would look like an insensitive pathetic little troll writing cringey edgelord comments to strangers online to feel better about your own lack of accomplishments.
Oh, and how’s your relationship with your father? Because you definitely learned this behavior from someone, and I have a guess as to where.
About 30% of the people who have requested healthcare with UHC “insurance” fall in that category, and only a fraction have been provided any viable means of attaining care.
In their desperation, some have asked OP for the only “remedy” they can think of. OP could simply decline their request, but instead whines about the ask.
Your “insensitivity” comments are better directed at OP than either me or the people OP is disparaging.
Lame troll bait
So, you a cat? You do nothing for anyone else and pretend you don’t use any resources?
There are plenty of people who took care of your dirty ass, whoever you are. If you are still breathing, someone gave a shit enough about you at some point to stick a bottle in your mouth to keep you from starving.
Hence, no one is an island and when you pretend otherwise, you prove what a kept, babied, ignorant person you are.
That argument is incredibly disrespectful of OP. You should be ashamed.
OP does not have any sort of responsibility to the rest of society, at least not with respect to “pulling a Luigi”.
OP is not an “island”, but their dependency connections to the rest of society do not create this sort of obligation to society.
At the same time, OP should be encouraged to ask for help, ask for what they need to improve their life. And that goes for the rest of society as well.
Asking for help is not disrespectful of the person being asked. OP’s indignant response to having merely been asked is deeply offensive.
Its the exact same thing I tell every libertarian asshole. You are all chained dogs who think you are lone wolves, can’t survive without whatever master you serve and bark at the rest of us to “do better”.
You told OP you think less of them for the post but call me disrespectful. Get fucked.
Correct. Your “no man is an island” arguments imply OP has some obligation of performance. OP has no such obligation. OP is not an undue burden on society. No quid pro quo is required or even expected. The benefits OP has received from society do not create the obligations you imply.
OP is free to say no to this and any request they do not wish to fulfill. Your “island” arguments imply otherwise. Your arguments suggest OP owes something that they certainly do not. Yes, you are being unduly disrespectful of OP.
Your suggestion that they haven’t given back enough is galling. The problematic part of OP’s narration begins when OP takes personal offense at having been asked for help, not the fact that they have been helped themselves, nor that they can’t or won’t “help” now.