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> how the homeless have made many areas of the city uninviting That's a very ugly sentence. Its is not "the homeless" who made the city uninviting. That is li
by wwwwwwwww 6y ago
> how the homeless have made many areas of the city uninviting
That's a very ugly sentence.
Its is not "the homeless" who made the city uninviting. That is like saying "the sick made this hospital uninviting".
Homeless people need help. They are people in distress.
Those who made the city uninviting are self-centered voters, who apparently can't give two shits about the situation, and keep voting people into power who don't do anything to help those who need help.
- D895n9o33436N42 6y ago> That is like saying "the sick made this hospital uninviting". But the sick do make a hospital uninviting! Think of all those heart attack patients who opted not to visit their local emergency department. Heart attacks are still happening regardless of how many additional patients are at the hospital due to infection.
- etrautmann 6y agoThis misses the point the parent was making.
- tiredyam 6y agoBut it does point out flaws in the analogy
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoHelping the homeless is a huge chunk of the city’s budget. I could see an argument that it’s not being spent on the right things, but the idea that city voters don’t care about the situation really doesn’t make sense to me.
- paul_f 6y agoSemantics, we all know what the poster meant. Whatever the cause, the homeless make large swaths of San Francisco unappealing, especially for people with young families. BTW, quite the irony that the most liberal city in the country has the biggest homeless problem. Whatever they're doing isn't working, maybe they should try something different?
- wwwwwwwww 6y agoAgain, its society and its lack of compassion does it. Not "the homeless".
- pb7 6y agoThere is more than plenty of compassion in SF and it doesn’t seem to be helping.
- zzzzzzzza 6y agoor maybe just prop 13
- lotsofpulp 6y agoIf SF decided to show compassion and start spending the massive amounts of money needed to help the homeless via education or mental health facilities, every other municipality in the country will start shipping people in. This isn’t a problem any city or state can address. It’s only solvable on a federal level, and that’s only because there is a military to enforce borders.
- wwwwwwwww 6y agoSo you decide to not help people, because then you would need to help people?
- lotsofpulp 6y ago
- roenxi 6y agoAll analogies break down fairly quickly, so I'll preface this with a clear vote of support for what you said. But in this case the purpose of a hospital is to provide for the sick. The purpose of a city is to do the opposite of homelessness - a city is a massive collection of homes. The existence of a large homeless population is concerning for reasons you allude to, but because a more appropriate analogy might be "the piles of corpses made the hospital uninviting". The point of a city is to not have homeless people and so something fundamental went wrong if there is a big homeless population.
- wwwwwwwww 6y ago> the purpose of a hospital is to provide for the sick And the purpose of society is to provide for its people. All of them.
- jod53 6y agoPerhaps true for society depending on your views, but the point of a city is simply somewhere many people want to live together. A sign of a healthy city is steady growth, this could be from the opportunities available or the attractiveness of the quality of life of the city. For Sf, the opportunity aspect is strong enough so people are willing to overlook the widespread homelessness.
- bzb4 6y agoThere’s no such thing as society.
- chaostheory 6y agoYes the homeless need to be in long term health facilities. Many of these people were essentially kicked out of these facilities due to budget issues. The federal government turns a blind eye, while individual cities take turns buying bus or plane fares to make them another city’s problem. This issue has its origins from a combination of the Reagan Administration and heavy lobbying by the Kennedy family.
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