Re:Prosecuting homeless for sleeping outside may violate U.S...
by carapace on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:05PM
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Speaking as one who was homeless for several years, yes, you do live according to a different set of rules when you get poor enough (or rich enough, for that matter.)
Society's rules are different from society's laws.
There's a place in Vancouver where you can walk around naked and buy dope and booze in public and no one will blink. Some people know about it, some don't, the police don't care.
Law is a fiction, a tool we use to manage human wickedness (good folk need no law.) Sometimes it works and sometimes it's stupid and vicious.
Throwing people in jail for having no better option than to sleep in the street, instead of giving them a house like Utah does, in this country, this richest of nations, is pathetic, and should not be lawful.
Society's rules are different from society's laws.
There's a place in Vancouver where you can walk around naked and buy dope and booze in public and no one will blink. Some people know about it, some don't, the police don't care.
Law is a fiction, a tool we use to manage human wickedness (good folk need no law.) Sometimes it works and sometimes it's stupid and vicious.
Throwing people in jail for having no better option than to sleep in the street, instead of giving them a house like Utah does, in this country, this richest of nations, is pathetic, and should not be lawful.