US Supreme Court weighs ban on homeless people sleeping outside
(insiderpaper.com)
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OK, so that is a very fuzzy statement. First of all society already deals with all sorts of public stuff, like sewerage, street-cleaners, dump-trucks, ambulances, public playgrounds etc. IF the garbage is not removed properly, then the street soon looks like a hell-hole. My point is that 'every else' is already actively dealing with a constantly degrading infrastructure. That is the nature of public management. The argument is: How is one to deal with it, going forward. You advocate for camps outside the city. I advocate for converting Office buildings, with some detail.
Do you mean that 'everyone else' is abused by 'their' presence? So, it is a fastidious cleansing sort of statement - to make the streets nice-;looking again. There is a clear distinction between 'those people' and 'everyone else'. Define it please. Bipolar generalizations tend to cause, for example, vulnerable young people down on their luck, being swept up in the clean-up, and that situation is ripe for abuse.
You blame the drug-takers etc. fine. I agree, those people are a special kind of victim of an international conspiracy to bring USA to its knees, a la a just retribution. There was a country that experienced such a revolution. Drugs, collapse and hunger and they are now quite happy, a hundred years later, except for perhaps some cold revenge.
So yes, those drug-addicts ( a percentage of 'those' people) can benefit from some sort of curfew/lockdown. Perhaps a de-tox program. But, I believe that sending them out in the desert is one thing - good on Arizona. Sending them out into upstate NY, or the hampshires, or Pennsylvanian ex-coalminer towns is maybe it bit of a harsher sentence. It's called snow in winter. So, that is why I am overthinking live-saving pods, etc.
And thanks for the opportunity to speak actively my fine fren.