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Yes. Lots of homeless people are "happy" with their drugged-out life. Shelters that require people to stop doing drugs or require even the most bare minimum a
by vanniv 7y ago
Yes. Lots of homeless people are "happy" with their drugged-out life. Shelters that require people to stop doing drugs or require even the most bare minimum amount of being willing to not act like an animal are often mostly empty -- the only services people will take are ones that let them continue to drug themselves into oblivion
- chadcmulligan 7y agoBut what is the situation that got them to their drugged out life? I'd suggest you're seeing the end point of a lot of systems failures along the way. Like one possible scenario - kids have some mental health issues in their teens, but because their parents aren't at home because they're working 2 jobs to live and medical treatment is unaffordable they dont get treatment. So they self medicate, and they drop out of school, then they live on the streets, then they're so drugged out they dont know any other life and they say they're happy living on the streets, because they really dont know any better. Children who aren't raised become animals - e.g. the children raised by wolves of English history fame. Then of course these children grow up and have children of their own, which are just totally animal. I'd suggest you're seeing the end results of 50 years of systems failures. recovery from this is expensive.
- vanniv 7y agoRecovery is expensive -- but we are already spending a fortune (about $18,000/homeless person/year in LA). The problem is that the current plan is all about enabling the animals to continue being animals. Letting them have permanent camps/drug dens, and just giving them the resources to make their situation stable. That helps nobody, it just breeds more animals.