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Im sorry but everything you write sounds like a verbatim quote from a fascist dystopia. Please consider why several people here have expressed bafflement at you
by matt4077 8y ago
Im sorry but everything you write sounds like a verbatim quote from a fascist dystopia. Please consider why several people here have expressed bafflement at your position. Criminalization of homelessness, as but one example, is a rather abhorrent idea.
Or consider how easily you could end up “useless” for society: if you get cancer, or into a car accident, would it be ok for society to just let you die? After all, the treatment is certain to cost far more than the taxes you would eventually pay after recovery.
I also feel quite safe here in the streets of Berlin, and part of that is that nobody is going around dividing people into useful and useless.
- anovikov 8y agoI don't agree that homelessness and bumming are same things. A law-abiding citizen who got evicted from his rental place due to unemployment and has to live with his friend on even sleeping in his car while figuring things out is one thing, and yes you have to be a Nazi to put him to jail for that. But wandering around the town dirty, drunk, stoned, smelly, begging and looking for what to steal is a totally different story. First is an economic/social issue which society has to constructively address: how to build a workable safety net which eliminates or minimizes such cases without bankrupting the public funds. Second is strictly a law enforcement problem, which should be solved in the interest of law-abiding citizens, not himself: remove this person out of public sight and make as sure as possible that his behavior will be fixed, without burdening public funds too much.