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Re:Anti-sex toilets to spray users with water jets by stickfigure on Saturday August 17, 2019 @09:54AM (#20724047)
Public toilets are a limited, expensive resource. "The worst that happens" is that they stop being public toilets.

Go ahead and make an argument that we should build hotels for the homeless. Public toilets are not that. Sleeping in them is not even fair to other homeless people who need to use the toilet!

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Re:Anti-sex toilets to spray users with water jets by cameronbrown on Saturday August 17, 2019 @10:17AM (#20724148)
My point was more about hostile architecture in general. I was trying to point out that the homeless have very few places to go - can't even shelter in a filthy public toilet. Anyone desperate enough to try has been stomped on enough without adding salt to the wound.

The better solution is to try and fix the underlying cause rather than hiding the symptoms.

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