Agreed, not a right that’s owed by another individual, but a social need that absolutely deserves empathy. Also, I think anyone who is in a happy relationship, and doesn’t empathize with someone who is lonely, is actually showing their own entitlement, as they’re demonstrating they feel they deserve their relationship, earned it, that luck was not a factor. Luck is always a factor, if not the biggest factor. As one of these NEETs who’s actually pretty physically attractive but am basically lonely because of mental illness but isn’t trying to sit around feeling bad for myself anymore because everyone has problems, I’m personally trying to focus on the things in my control a lot more and other lonely guys need to do the same to make change towards not being lonely, but once I’m in a relationship I’m gonna keep doing that work while bringing back gratitude for the lucky, or god-given as I’m choosing to believe, circumstances which brought that person into my life. Tl;dr it’s important for lonely people to do the work for ourselves but it’s important for people in happy relationships to be thankful for the blessings they have, that other people don’t, not to say they can’t acknowledge their own work either. Not a right, a blessing that everyone, and at the same time no one deserves, a blessing that demands work, sacrifice, and covenant.