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> If you're poor, sick or have no job than there is even people who'd argue for mercy killing you as not being strong enough for our good society. Where do you
by askmike 8y ago
> If you're poor, sick or have no job than there is even people who'd argue for mercy killing you as not being strong enough for our good society.
Where do you meet people who argue for that? I Have never heard that outside of (very) dystopian novels.
- SeaSeaRider 8y agoI think he might be a russian troll?
- VvR-Ox 8y agoI think you just try to disqualify my valid arguments because you don't want to see what is happening around here.
- lm28469 8y agoHomeless people and people living on social wellfare are seen as a pest pretty much everywhere in western societies. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-containment-plan/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-containment-plan/ That's a top city in one of the most powerful / rich country in the world, you don't have to look very far to find other examples.
- VvR-Ox 8y agoThank you for this article. People should open their eyes and at least read stuff like this to check with their self constructed reality. Seems some of them live in a dome where you can't see all of this development. Nice for them - I could cry sometimes because it's so unfair.
- heyjudy 8y agoCome to the SF Bay Area and drive around the highways or take a long-distance railway ride: there are hundreds to thousands of people living rough. It's like a diffuse favela, and most people don't care and a number of people actively hate people, and express violence, for them being poor. This is the result of Nixon and Reagan defunding JFK's community-based mental healthcare centers because they couldn't, or didn't want to, relate to people in different circumstances.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoIronically it was Nixon who came within days of a speech announcing UBI. He saw adequate welfare as a thoroughly Republican thing to provide. Only after he was lobbied with evidence based upon lies did he relent. First link search turned up: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/richard-nixon-ubi-basic-income-welfare/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/richard-nixon-ubi-basic-i...
- askmike 8y agoAs someone from a small European country with huge social safety nets, this is quite insane to read. But still, are people talking about mercy killing all of them? I might have to reclassify the meaning of dystopian, the books I read are only half as messed up as this..