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> This skirts pretty close to saying that homelessness is an issue of "personal responsibility" Can it not be personal responsibility? Does it _always_ have to
by Eumenes 3y ago
> This skirts pretty close to saying that homelessness is an issue of "personal responsibility"
Can it not be personal responsibility? Does it _always_ have to be a systemic problem with our economic system? Believe it or not, there's always been segments of the population who can't cope with day to day responsibility and life. For every homeless person whose down on their luck or deeply involved in a drug addiction, there's 1000s who came from disenfranchised backgrounds who 'made it'
- shuntress 3y agoWhat you seem to be driving towards is the idea that jail houses need to exist in order to house the people who "can't cope with day to day responsibility and life". I don't disagree. Exactly like you say, some people just need a little more help to 'make it' some people simple can't handle it and need to be taken care of for their entire life.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y ago> For every homeless person whose down on their luck or deeply involved in a drug addiction, there's 1000s who came from disenfranchised backgrounds who 'made it' Given that there are ~528,000 homeless people in the United States that's an impossible statistic.
- avgcorrection 3y agoNot necessarily with the economic system but any pattern in a large group can be explained as a group problem, yes. Then you propose the group-level fixes. Imagine a personal development coach who said that “personal responsibility doesn't exist”. That's pretty absurd. Then imagine a sociologist that says that “group-level problems don't exist”. Equally absurd.