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It likely will. Not in a direct fashion, but which ever city does the best job solving the problem will create an outlet for other cities to send their homeles

It likely will. Not in a direct fashion, but which ever city does the best job solving the problem will create an outlet for other cities to send their homeless/mentally ill towards that city. So on the local level, fixing the problem can end up making it worse. It is a sort of prisoner's dilemma, and while you can say you will choose to do what you think is the right thing regardless of cost, you will find that most people will only follow that so far (though they will not likely admit it to avoid the social damage admitting such will do).

arcticbull 7y ago
It won't create mental health problems, it will expose them. In the cat analogy, not offering services is just pretending the cats don't exist thus solving the problem once and for all. The cats are still there and so are all the negative consequences associated with a large population of feral cats. This is sorta head-in-the-sand thinking, right? The problem needs to be solved nation-wide.
- SkyBelow 7y ago
  It won't expose them, it will attract them. Colloquially, attracting problems from elsewhere is said to be creating problems for oneself. In the cat analogy, you are correct because other cities won't go about shipping their stray cats to you (if they round them up they will just kill them). But there has already been numerous cases of cities sending homeless people to other areas. This is where the hungry cat/homeless analogy breaks down.
  - arcticbull 7y ago
    That's the same thing. The same number of people exist with mental health issues regardless of whether they're receiving treatment. With stray animals you can round them up, castrate them and throw them back. With people you look after them. Either way the same number exists with or without treatment.
    - SkyBelow 7y ago
      Only if you look at it at a global level. If you can't break the problem down to local levels and solve it locally, you won't have a chance at solving it.
      - arcticbull 7y ago
        Luckily we only have to look at it nationally thanks to borders and immigration law. Which we can, and should.

arcticbull 7y ago

It won't create mental health problems, it will expose them. In the cat analogy, not offering services is just pretending the cats don't exist thus solving the problem once and for all. The cats are still there and so are all the negative consequences associated with a large population of feral cats. This is sorta head-in-the-sand thinking, right? The problem needs to be solved nation-wide.

SkyBelow 7y ago
It won't expose them, it will attract them. Colloquially, attracting problems from elsewhere is said to be creating problems for oneself. In the cat analogy, you are correct because other cities won't go about shipping their stray cats to you (if they round them up they will just kill them). But there has already been numerous cases of cities sending homeless people to other areas. This is where the hungry cat/homeless analogy breaks down.
- arcticbull 7y ago
  That's the same thing. The same number of people exist with mental health issues regardless of whether they're receiving treatment. With stray animals you can round them up, castrate them and throw them back. With people you look after them. Either way the same number exists with or without treatment.
  - SkyBelow 7y ago
    Only if you look at it at a global level. If you can't break the problem down to local levels and solve it locally, you won't have a chance at solving it.
    - arcticbull 7y ago
      Luckily we only have to look at it nationally thanks to borders and immigration law. Which we can, and should.