I genuinely wish I could sentence Ben Shapiro to working non-managerial retail for the rest of his natural life
I’ve had a fair number of people saying “why not sentence him to death” or sentiments along those lines. I know it probably sounds like a cliche, but death would be way too fucking easy.
Ben Shapiro is an influential conservative talking head, to put it politely. There is a nonzero chance he could get what he wants: an end to retirement at 65.
And the thing is, I’ve already known people who couldn’t retire at 65. I worked with a lovely old lady who had already collapsed due to cardiac issues at work multiple times, and she had another medical emergency while I worked there.
Do you know what it’s like when some strangers want you to call 911 and you don’t, because you’re not doing that until she says she wants to go to the hospital or loses consciousness, because you know her, and American healthcare is ridiculously expensive, and this would be her third ambulance trip in a year?
I want him to know how being that old and infirm and unable to retire feels. I want him to contemplate his mortality and will to survive when all he’s got going for him is keeping the coffee brewing and the roller grill cooking and taking out the trash. I want him to know what it’s like to have well-meaning people not care about his feelings and call 911 because that’s what they’ve been taught that’s what good people do in an emergency. I want him to know what it’s like to insist that he should just rest for a moment, sitting on a hard chair among the Tornados and hot dogs and coffee while concerned strangers are terrified he might die and wonder why his friends don’t seem to want to help him.
Do you understand? Death means his problems are over. I want him to experience the cruelty he demands.
