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>This is the fallacy that the majority of people suffer from: if I don't see it, it doesn't happen. My reply will be brutish. I know it happens. I just don't w
by jterrys 3y ago
>This is the fallacy that the majority of people suffer from: if I don't see it, it doesn't happen.
My reply will be brutish. I know it happens. I just don't want to see it. I don't want to watch mothers with toddlers be solicited for change in the checkout line at drug stores, or young couples be harassed outside a coffee shop. I hate that I can't eat a meal a terrace without some drugged out beggar trying to hustle me for change.
I don't care who or what does drugs. I don't care about the functional or dysfunctional drug users. It's mental gymnastics at this point. I just don't want to see them.
Whatever you do in the privacy of your own home that's fine. But that's not happening. We just can't have nice things.
- tfourb 3y agoWhat you are essentially saying is that the right of certain people to access public spaces should be curtailed because they annoy you. Begging is a right und German law and does not have to happen silently. If that annoys you, how about you contribute to a solution that leads to less people having to beg, instead of advocating for the (clearly illegal and amoral) "solution" of confining people "out of sight"?