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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by Miner49er on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:23AM (#22201428)
By this logic, you can say "the government can't take away your freedoms by evicting you and then denying you the right to find housing elsewhere."
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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by dbatten on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:29AM (#22201473)
Right... but that's still different from "the government has to pay for you to have a house."
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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by Nasrudith on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:00AM (#22201677)
They need to leave an alternative to not pay and must pay for enforcement. No home? Sleep on their doorstep. They want you off? Then left sleeping on the street. If they want you out of the street and so on. Eliminate all other viable alternatives and they either get stuck with the bill of enforcement or cede the claim effectively to thr Nth last step because say they cannot stop you from sleeping on a park bench without also pissing off elderly voters who dose in parks. Throwing you in jail at any step in the process is just a spiteful way of providing housing that is less productive for everyone.

The harsh logical truth is you /always/ pay for other people in some way. Choice only affects the cost and outcome.

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