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I'm willing to bet these judges live in a nice gated community where the prospect of them and/or their children stepping in excrement or needles is zero. While
by jquery 8y ago
I'm willing to bet these judges live in a nice gated community where the prospect of them and/or their children stepping in excrement or needles is zero. While in a utopia I'd agree, nobody should be arrested for just existing in the wrong place, "criminalizing" this behavior is the only way to force these people into a fully-functioning shelter where they cannot spread disease and filth to the rest of the population. For someone who's best option for sleep is a sidewalk, how is jail some sort of cruel and inhumane treatment?
- ajross 8y ago> spread disease and filth to the rest of the population You want to quibble with constitutional minutiae, but drop that whopper without evidence? I mean, can you cite even one instance where someone got sick from interacting with someone who... slept outside?
- jquery 8y agoSleeping outside is almost never just sleeping outside. There’s open defecation, drug use, public urination, and needles left on the ground that usually accompany it. It’s a major public health hazard.
- pmiller2 8y agoYes, it is, and it should be dealt with as such. Criminalizing peoples’ existence is not dealing with the problem itself.
- jquery 8y agoSurely you don't suggest the police wait around for public defecation? Do you also suggest public intoxication should be legal, since that too is criminalizing (a certain type of) existence. All crimes are crimes of existence, it's a meaningless platitude to call it such. You merely sympathize and think street sleeping should be allowed, likely because you don't have to deal with the consequences of it happening on your front porch.