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The only humane solution is to bring back mental hospitals, even with involuntary commitment. The severely mentally ill and/or drug addled are incapable of tak
by gotoeleven 3y ago
The only humane solution is to bring back mental hospitals, even with involuntary commitment. The severely mentally ill and/or drug addled are incapable of taking care of themselves. Giving out free needles and making it easier to live in an alley like a stray dog is not humane. What do you think about this?
The "move it along" policing at least has the effect of making it less easy to be homeless which I think ultimately is a more humane strategy than subsidizing a sub-human life.
- anigbrowl 3y agoHow does this help the homeless person? I have a homeless neighbor I help out a bit, but there's only so much I can do, I don't have many resources of my own. He's 70-something, has cataracts and glaucoma, can barely walk, and has his stuff split between a car and a tent. The county helps him out with some things but it's band-aid levels of assistance when he should be in an assisted living facility. I'm not sure how much more deserving he has to be to get some meaningful help. The idea that making it harder to be homeless will somehow cause people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps assumes that they can afford boots and have sufficient strength to pull on them, so to speak. A lot of homeless people are at rock bottom and need something more comprehensive than a cot and a hot dinner.