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> If you’ve been through the experience of having anything and everything gradually stolen out of your yard and car if it’s not bolted down, with the police not
by giraffe_lady 2y ago
> If you’ve been through the experience of having anything and everything gradually stolen out of your yard and car if it’s not bolted down, with the police not giving a flying F about your loss or the problem systemically,
I've been through the experience of being homeless. I have some opinions about the degree to which the police cared about my problems too.
I once stole a tarp out of a yard in the face of an incoming blizzard I was hoping to survive. My sympathies are never going to be with the yard guardians here.
- aksss 2y agoNot many people would begrudge a tarp to a person in need, if asked, and the reality is that most theft of other peoples’ belongings absolutely doesn’t happen under such a circumstance. Framing the problem as such is a self-deluding and dishonest application of exceptional circumstances to the whole. Also, there’s probably at least a little room for reflection about how you wound up in the situation where your very survival depended upon stealing from others, why you chose not to knock on the door and ask, and the choices you made to get out of such life circumstances.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoThe first time I slept on the street was during middle school. The reflection we need to be doing is how we've created these circumstances, and why we allow people to continue to suffer them. This is your world too.
- NicholasGurr 2y ago[flagged]