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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by kelnos on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:43AM (#21190358)
Civilization is exactly about imposing a philosophy on how people should live. Like it or not, that's how it works. If you don't want to play ball, there are plenty of open spaces in the US where people can live off the land without creating a public health hazard.

If people don't want to be homeless, we should do everything in our power to help them get into housing, sustainably. But if they do? No thanks, do that somewhere else, where the land can be reasonably and cost-effectively set up to support that. One of the most expensive, highly-regulated real estate markets in the US is not that place.

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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by airnomad on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:54AM (#21190426)
Philosophy on how people should live is not a set in stone.

It's a moving target and it should be moving in a direction of achieving the best outcome for everyone, regardless if they're investment bankers or heroin addicts.

People thinking like you have been trying to stop progress since we got down from the trees. It's this ridiculous idea that how things are now is something that has to be kept and preserved.

It is a disservice to humanity - those ideas never survive history test, just cause better future for everyone to come later than it could.

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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by ltbarcly3 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:08AM (#21190503)
> People thinking like you have been trying to stop progress since we got down from the trees. It's this ridiculous idea that how things are now is something that has to be kept and preserved.

Wait, aren't you the one arguing people should move back up into the trees? Well, not even the trees, you are just arguing they should live on the ground, and even our primitive primate ancestors weren't stupid enough to want to do that.

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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by airnomad on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:15AM (#21190543)
I'm arguing that everyone should be living as close to how they want as possible
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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by awayyyythrow on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:58AM (#21190445)
Yeah, most people actually love to be homeless and live in tents. The housing crisis isn't real.
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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by m0nsoon on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:21AM (#21190592)
So it is society to blame for one’s decision to not be employed, be addicted to intoxicants, and behave feral? The grandiose entitlement certainly is real.
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Re:San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless by awayyyythrow on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:23AM (#21190616)
Yeah, how dare people want to sleep in a bed under a roof. So entitled.
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