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Thank goodness for the homeless for preventing at least some of the people that don't like looking at poor people from moving here.

• closeparen 7y ago
  This comment is perfect San Francisco. We welcome the homeless as props that reinforce our moral superiority for welcoming them. More extreme or visible distress, behavior further outside social norms, etc. suits us even better. But God forbid we make any tradeoff whatsoever to actually improve their situations or bring behavior within norms. Please, let's bring in as many migrants as possible who don't like looking at poor people, then we might actually do something about poverty.
  • guelo 7y ago
    I was responding to a comment that had the idea that we shouldn't do anything to benefit the homeless because it might attract more homeless. But I'm the one that doesn't want to improve their situation.
    • ben_jones 7y ago
      For one thing I was born and raised in the Bay Area so I wouldn’t cross your fingers that you can prevent people like me coming in. I am from here. To your point, I wasn’t advocating for a decrease in homeless services offered by local government. I was saying the forcing of businesses to personally intervene (versus just a tax or similar abstract approach) makes me uneasy. Similarly I don’t agree with an alternative justice system being applied to any class of Americans, though chucking everyone in prison doesn’t help either... I realize I could’ve made my points clearer which may have avoided this turning into an emotionally charged online argument.