How many crazed homeless drug addicts per philosopher poet do you find acceptable? Is it somewhere near the current 10k to 1 level? Of course you are willing to patronize a cabal of homeless on your block as well.

Our society used to have places for these people, like farmhand jobs, cheap poor houses in the city, etc. Perhaps it is a failure on our part that we have now have nothing better for these people then a desire to push them out of sight. It seems they get a lot of blame for not being able to keep up with an increasingly demanding modern consumerist society.

> How many crazed homeless drug addicts per philosopher poet do you find acceptable?

I think the only acceptable number is zero. The philosopher poet clearly desires this life. The crazed homeless drug addict would much rather inject his morphine at home.

In other words, I think the fact that a drug addict is homeless is incidental. They should be treated because they’re a drug addict, not because they’re homeless.