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comment by snoodog
snoodog  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wealthy San Francisco tech investors bankroll bid to ban homeless camps

Thats like saying you should sell your house every time someone shits on your lawn. Its just silly.

    I want you to think: What happens when everyone shares the attitude you just put forward? What happens when we can't open any homeless shelters because everyone gets angry and tries their best to constantly shut them down? We don't get more shelters, we don't fix the problem, poverty gets worse, the homeless get more desperate, and everyone loses.

Good things happen. Opening homeless shelters and soup kitchens that tailor to them does nothing to actually solve homelessness. It like giving addicts more drugs. Sure they feel better for a bit but the people around them suffer more and more addicts arrive to consume them.





bioemerl  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Opening homeless shelters and soup kitchens that tailor to them does nothing to actually solve homelessness.

People who are homless are homeless because they are incapable of holding down a job or keeping a steady life. Drug addicts, mentally ill, and so on. They aren't the sort of people you can fix, you just have to provide for them so that they do not become the things that are causing all the crime and issues that cgod is talking about.

Ultimately, if we wanted to solve homelessness than I can offer you a single, final, very easy, solution to your problem. If you aren't willing to move, if you aren't willing to solve the problem and help people, than there isn't much else you can do.