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Lance has no scruples gaining capital from anything whatsoever to do with cancer, which is a pretty strange attitude to say the least. In some ways he's exploiting a social problem, which becomes hushed and reverent in its presence.
Which is fine. What isn't is this peculiar insistence amongst his followers that his even having it absolves him of any criticism, of any sort, so leave him alone. No, fuck him. Take cancer out of it. Why can't we do that? It's irrational and crap logic to not separate his actions from his disease. He knows that's a problem, so makes the most of it. This will sound strange, but 'cancer' has given him a lot of clout. His handling of it has been a major contributing factor in him having survived this level of scrutiny for so long, which I find pretty degrading.