FoxNews keeps showing all these tents in parks and on sidewalks. Is that really happening? Or, are they blowing it out of proportion??
come. The weather is anther factor. Drug addicts and alcoholics make up the bulk of the people. But there are other that want the life and there are others that are down on their luck.
Mostly self inflicted.
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Allow people to urinate and defecate on themselves with dignity. Supply needles to relieve suffering.
ODs, suicides, and death by neglect are human rights. Murders are essentially mercy killings.
Perhaps "Pain Emancipation Centers" could be set up to allow individuals to elect passage to a better place.
...that you were watching Foxnews.
(It's actually a good topic, Ned).
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Of course, we have zero interest in attempting to understand the etiology of mental illness, because the answers involved difficult news for all of us.
And then we wonder why we have psychopaths running around, and homeless who don't want homes.
I don't know what the compassionate answer is. Freedom for the mentally ill and drug dependent? Or forced medical help? As a society, I wonder if we went too far towards asylums in the past, when we had no mental health treatments to speak of, and now, when we have better mental health treatment standards, we go too far away from asylums. (Everything is relative. I realize we still don't know how to treat many mental illnesses, and we just throw random drugs at them until one has better effects than side effects.)
The libertarian in me says freedom is paramount. The compassionate side of me wonders if that is the right move
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explanation.
First time there. Started watching your video. Looks fun!
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Stupid, fallacious statements can be returned you know.
They do represent the majority of homeless yes. No, 100% of the homeless population is not comprised of illegal immigrants, and of course, nobody ever said that either.
You are so underequipped for this board. Consider just being quiet and learning.
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They are counting on the homeless registering, making it to the polls on election day, and rationally voting their self-interest?
Anyone supporting a less than tolerant attitude toward the homeless is branded an insensitive bigot.
Doesn't that usually mean using (or promising to use) public funds to the economic benefit of a particular constituency?
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If you roll out the welcome wagon, they will come in droves and they identify the places that will offer them the most.
I think we've had this conversation.
Making it shitty for the homeless doesn't solve the homeless problem, it just dumps it on someone else. Kudos to the cities that are trying to help. It is costing them in image, security, and reputation, but they are trying to do the right thing.
Nothing in between.
You undoubtedly roll out your own red carpet in your neighborhood for drug-addicted and psychotic homeless folks. I have no doubts.
That advances the conversation. I suppose the "red carpet" comment is an inherent argument that certain cities provide too much comfort to the homeless?
It seems to me that you want to get into what is an appropriate policy. That's fine. But using the fact that the homeless flock to certain cities doesn't really address whether those certain cities have the right amount of "sympathy", or whether the other cities the homeless fled from have the right amount of "sympathy".
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Aren't they just making it easier on the homeless?