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Clearly the solution here is to reduce the unsanitary living conditions is to eliminate homelessness. The easiest way to do that is to close the gap between the
by freeone3000 8y ago
Clearly the solution here is to reduce the unsanitary living conditions is to eliminate homelessness. The easiest way to do that is to close the gap between the wealth gap between the richest and the poorest, and the easiest way to do that is to let the homeless die. As diseases become worse, those able to afford healthcare will live, and those unable to (the "potential homeless") will start to die in droves. Of course, we'll spend a bit more on cremations, but perhaps we can get a bulk discount? We'll have people look into that. All measures state that if the least wealthy people simply stopped being there at all, we'd be closer as a society to our ideals by every quantifiable metric. So hats off to typhus, and cholera, and dysentery, for existing in 2019 and doing what we always wanted to happen but haven't got the stomach to do ourselves.
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- komali2 8y ago>let the homeless die This is immoral and thus not a potential solution, full stop. Others must be considered instead.
- lisper 8y agoThe GP comment was satire, modeled after Jonathan Swift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
- loudmax 8y agoI'm about 90% convinced that you're correct, and about 10% terrified that you're not.
- lisper 8y agoYou may find some comfort in the fact that the proposed solution wouldn't actually work. Humans are extraordinarily robust creatures. Our best efforts at exterminating them, even using state-of-the-art technology on industrial scales, have, for better or worse, barely made a dent in the population.
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