No weirder than buying something with the person you think is cool is selling on an advert.
It is weird to deify a murderer, yes especially a rich, privileged one whose family have most likely actively profited from the American healthcare system via their Assisted Living facilities at the expense of both residents and staff , and I doubt that’s the full extent of their unscrupulous business practices but apparently neither Mangione or his supporters care to look into that because it’s a little too close to home, that money sent him to his prestigious private school and rather conflicts with their hero worship.
And it’s all very well advocating murder until they come for someone on your side. The same rhetoric has been used to excuse the murder of Doctors providing abortions, anti racism activists, whistleblowers and many others who Luigi’s defenders would see as good people. Do you advocate for those murders too knowing that their killers were probably every bit as driven and sincere in their belief that it was done for the greater good as your “hero”? Or is killing only allowed when their beliefs align with yours?
I fail to see what changes have been made as a result of this? There absolutely needs to be huge changes to the healthcare system in America but I don’t see this changing anything. And as much as change is necessary they’d have to be crazy to make changes now because they’d be rewarding and incentivising murder.