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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by pirate787 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @04:46PM (#37450115)
The obsession with "Inequality" is misplaced envy. The issue is government policies that enable and support lawbreaking.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by xg15 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @05:25PM (#37450443)
So arrest all the homeless then?
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by pb7 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @05:47PM (#37450618)
If they break the law then yeah, why not? They’re not above the law.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by Gibbon1 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @06:01PM (#37450728)
General principal among civilized peoples is you can't punish people for breaking laws they they are unable to follow through no fault of their own.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by lolinder on Saturday September 09, 2023 @06:22PM (#37450875)
"Through no fault of their own" is the point of contention with this topic. One side believes the homeless are mostly victims of circumstance, the other that they're mostly victims of their own poor choices and addictions.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by alistairSH on Saturday September 09, 2023 @07:04PM (#37451179)
There are no free public toilets. So the homeless shit in the street. Arresting them for that fixes nothing. Except maybe buys you a day or two without shit, until another homeless person settles in.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by lolinder on Saturday September 09, 2023 @07:34PM (#37451359)
There are plenty of public toilets where I live, and the homeless use them the same as the rest of us.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by mike50 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @07:05PM (#37451190)
Can the tv news both sides nonsense. Other points of view are the failure of governments to provide services to their citizens. For example what if the government provided for different solutions and support for those with mental and physical illness. What if governments provide stable housing AND emergency shelters. You can't just work harder to afford housing and you can't just go to AA to treat your addiction and underlying conditions.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by johnnyanmac on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:47AM (#37464560)
>Other points of view are the failure of governments to provide services to their citizens.

of which services are funded by and voted in by taxpayers.

So yes, to some extent it is the people's fault.

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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by SoftTalker on Saturday September 09, 2023 @07:18PM (#37451262)
And while certainly not in all cases, it’s at least sometimes their deliberate choice and preference to live a life of zero responsibility.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by Animats on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:06PM (#37460574)
Ship drug users off to drug camp? All the drugs you want, free, for as long as you live. Test clean for a week and you're out.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by xg15 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:13PM (#37460640)
Friendly reminder that sending people to camps with the tacit expectation that they will not leave the camp again alive is something that we all agreed not to want a repeat of in history.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by acuozzo on Saturday September 09, 2023 @05:58PM (#37450706)
Wow. HN is one of the few places I'd expect to encounter someone stuck in Kohlberg Stage 4.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by amanaplanacanal on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:07PM (#37451941)
When some people can afford a place to live and others can’t, I’d say that inequality is a problem. Calling it envy doesn’t address that at all.
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Re:Public restrooms are hard to find in America. That’s a pr... by yazzku on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:57AM (#37510663)
Envy of what?
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