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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by joshribakoff on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:22PM (#27950392)
I don’t think homeless people should suffer but there should be rules. Instead of allowing people to ruin a sidewalk by storing 100 stolen bicycle scraps and other trash, they should be relocated to safe sleeping sites. Should tax payers have their view ruined, live in stench, and have HIV positive schizophrenic folks with an ax running into their place of business? My friend owns a business and had to stop selling merchandise due to theft. This literally happens daily here. The mayor doesn’t want to place some of these people in conservatorship which is what’s required at a certain point.

(I’m aware I’ll be down voted by people who do not live here, haven’t had to call the cops for help themselves, and think I am just exaggerating)

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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by noobermin on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:33PM (#27950499)
Your comment seems to suggest you don't actually want the situation to get better, you want people to suffer for some reason. The point is the Finland solution actually works and that's why it should be done.
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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by joshribakoff on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:36PM (#27950525)
I literally stated I do not want them to suffer. I am not arguing against sleeping sites I clearly stated I am in favor of them

I am just stating if someone refuses the safe sleeping sites and continues to break into yoga studios and throw feces and blood at people, maybe there ought to be a backup “solution”.

Why does homelessness become an excuse to commit crimes? We can both help homeless people and also not make them immune to laws.

Why should my neighbor who is wheelchair bound have no access to her sidewalk because a homeless guy is storing 100 stolen bicycle wheels on the sidewalk?

I specifically want more safe sleeping sites, but I also want people arrested if they refuse the safe sleeping site and choose to be a menace to a society.

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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by gordian-mind on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:01PM (#27950825)
Very cool application of the "Principle of charity".
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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by noobermin on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:07PM (#27950891)
May be I can clarify, when I said, "it suggests..." I probably should have said that if you follow the logic all the way through, they don't want to actually solve the issue. Who cares about how you feel? Do you want to solve homelessness or do you not? What other alternative is there?
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