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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by bluefirebrand on Friday June 02, 2023 @03:01PM (#36169314)
You are drowning.

I jump in and help you to shore.

You immediately jump back in and start drowning again.

Someone else helps you to shore

You jump back in and start drowning again.

Eventually everyone who would help you wants some kind of evidence that this time you won't just jump back in before they help you.

You drown.

Are you saying they should have done more?

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by bombcar on Friday June 02, 2023 @03:42PM (#36169867)
At some point you put up a fence, either around the drowning pond or around the jumper.
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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by bluefirebrand on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:52PM (#36171870)
In this metaphor the pond is drugs and the jumper is an addict.

We've tried putting a "fence" around drugs, it doesn't work.

And we've decided that putting a "fence" around addicts (aka prison) is wrong.

So it seems like we really don't have options.

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