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Some people might like this type of thinking, but not me. Like my liquor, I prefer my friendships unadulterated. The law should protect us, but it should remain unwelcome in some parts of our lives. When I am old, if my husband has died and I am still childless, I would like the law to mandate that the state provide for my needs. If the law cares about me, that would be a nice way to show it. A shitty way for the law to demonstrate its love for me is to abandon me in my hour of need under the pretext that my friends are the ones who should be buying my medications and changing my Depends. Ideally, there will be friendships kindled in the abuse-free state-run nursing home that will be mutually sustaining until we die. But the law never has and never will have anything to say about this, because it cannot speak to what it cannot objectify.
