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Originally Posted by thinkxingu
Threads like these reveal a whole lot about our forum members.
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Maybe, but I hope not. I like to think that most just post half of what they're thinking...
At some level we all know that it is unconscionable that our system is leaving too many people homeless and hungry, in part due to an inadequate net for those with mental illness and other severe disadvantages, and in part due to failures in the economics and regulations surrounding real estate. That's an incredible embarrassment for the richest country in the world.
But we also know that it's kind of messed up for an able bodied person to be pan handling in front of a store that has job openings, and (as a separate matter) the behavior of some homeless people is completely unacceptable and a drain on society. The formerly great city of San Francisco and the Boston Mass and Cass neighborhood are prime exhibits.
We need solutions to both of these things, not whataboutisms and blind eyes to whatever half of the that makes us uncomfortable