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that last little bit about distinguishing between being homeless by choice versus misfortune is just bollocks -- as someone who has been in those shoes (homeles
by feydr 16y ago
that last little bit about distinguishing between being homeless by choice versus misfortune is just bollocks -- as someone who has been in those shoes (homeless by choice) and having met a LOT of 'homeless' people I can attest that it is ALL by choice -- sure it might be pyschologically harder for one person to bring themselves back up into 'society' if they have let rougher circumstances befall them but it's still a matter of choice -- living pro-actively instead of re-actively allows you to define your situation rather than letting it define you
- cschneid 16y agoExcept you know, when there's mental illness, physical disease, drug addiction, or some other pretty major reason that they can't just "snap out of it". You are right that people who don't have that kind of barrier should, and mostly do get back into society after a period of hard times. The chronic ones are homeless for a reason, and it's pretty insensitive to just say that they should live "pro-actively".