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> That's my charitable take. My uncharitable take is that a lot of people in power don't care, have no heart and can't be arsed to pretend to care. The charita

by creato 7y ago

> That's my charitable take. My uncharitable take is that a lot of people in power don't care, have no heart and can't be arsed to pretend to care. The charitable take is that public space is meant to be usable by the general public, not have it adversely possessed as permanent living space. Most "hostile architecture" is designed to prevent only the latter, not the former.

throwaway3627 7y ago
Nice empathy you have there. I bet you would sing a different song if you were homeless.
- Chris2048 7y ago
  Would you sing a different song if you weren't a throwaway?
DoreenMichele 7y ago
The general public doesn't hang out in a lot of the places where they put spikes to interfere with homeless people being able to sleep, like under overpasses. We're not talking "You shouldn't sleep in the public square." We're talking "You shouldn't sleep at all. You shouldn't exist. No, we aren't really going to help you solve your problems and get off the street. We are just going to make your existence as miserable as possible while you are homeless and make it that much harder for you to solve your own problems." At best, making it impossible for homeless people to sleep at all "solves" homelessness by sending people to an early grave. If that isn't cruel and heartless, I don't know what is.
- creato 7y ago
  The article you linked was talking about: > The metal spikes, part of a trend called "hostile architecture," appeared recently outside of an office building in Manchester, England, that's managed by commercial property agent GVA, according to The Guardian. The original wikipedia article uses the following examples: > - The Seattle Department of Transportation installed bicycle racks to prevent the homeless from camping.[14] > - A gas station in New Kensington, Pennsylvania installed blue lighting in their bathrooms that make it hard for drug users to find their veins.[15][16] > - Anti-homeless spikes on London's Curtain Road to prevent homeless people from sleeping there.[17] The further examples in the wikipedia article are clearly not otherwise unused overpasses.
  - DoreenMichele 7y ago
    https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-27ca231db82b604e391a3eec68e0de88-c https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-27ca231db82b604e391a3e... https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-627ee5187b673bfa6d413e115a679d60-c https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-627ee5187b673bfa6d413e... From: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-so-against-anti-homeless-spikes https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-so-against-anti-homeles...

by creato 7y ago

throwaway3627 7y ago

Nice empathy you have there. I bet you would sing a different song if you were homeless.

Chris2048 7y ago
Would you sing a different song if you weren't a throwaway?

DoreenMichele 7y ago

The general public doesn't hang out in a lot of the places where they put spikes to interfere with homeless people being able to sleep, like under overpasses. We're not talking "You shouldn't sleep in the public square." We're talking "You shouldn't sleep at all. You shouldn't exist. No, we aren't really going to help you solve your problems and get off the street. We are just going to make your existence as miserable as possible while you are homeless and make it that much harder for you to solve your own problems." At best, making it impossible for homeless people to sleep at all "solves" homelessness by sending people to an early grave. If that isn't cruel and heartless, I don't know what is.

creato 7y ago
The article you linked was talking about: > The metal spikes, part of a trend called "hostile architecture," appeared recently outside of an office building in Manchester, England, that's managed by commercial property agent GVA, according to The Guardian. The original wikipedia article uses the following examples: > - The Seattle Department of Transportation installed bicycle racks to prevent the homeless from camping.[14] > - A gas station in New Kensington, Pennsylvania installed blue lighting in their bathrooms that make it hard for drug users to find their veins.[15][16] > - Anti-homeless spikes on London's Curtain Road to prevent homeless people from sleeping there.[17] The further examples in the wikipedia article are clearly not otherwise unused overpasses.
- DoreenMichele 7y ago
  https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-27ca231db82b604e391a3eec68e0de88-c https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-27ca231db82b604e391a3e... https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-627ee5187b673bfa6d413e115a679d60-c https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-627ee5187b673bfa6d413e... From: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-so-against-anti-homeless-spikes https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-so-against-anti-homeles...