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  • #1

    Homeless Folks

    Ive noticed there are alot of them around here. I even had one stumble towards me in a drunken stuppor on my walk to work. Luckily just stepping to the side was enough to avoid any situation.

    From what Ive heard some of them make a decent living from begging, $100 a day or more. Thats almost twice what I make.


    What are your thoughts about them?

    Do you think there is any way to get them off the streets?
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    We could label them as undesirables, force them to distinguish themselves with some kind of badge, round them up into concentration camps, and then exterminate them.
    A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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    • #3
      Lots on the streets in Washington too. I think a lot are mentally impaired, who in other societies would be taken from the streets and locked in assylums. At least that's the case in Washington, which attracts lots of nuts because of what the city stands for (it is a very strong symbol for people off their rockers for some reason).
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #4
        Well, it's a lot easier to be homeless where it's warm than in Barrow.
        Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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        • #5
          Originally posted by MrFun
          We could label them as undesirables, force them to distinguish themselves with some kind of badge, round them up into concentration camps, and then exterminate them.
          That was slightly inappropriate...

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          • #6
            I think a lot are mentally impaired, who in other societies would be taken from the streets and locked in assylums.


            Why cant we do that anymore anyway? Its not all that inhumane to take a person who cannot care for himself and take care of him, is it?

            edit: we already do the same thing with minors who are pretty much homeless.

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            • #7
              Yeah, MrFun, let's just deport 'em!
              Monkey!!!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Lord Nuclear


                That was slightly inappropriate...

                I forgot to include some kind of sarcastic smilie for those who sarcasm detectors are not working.
                A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Japher
                  Yeah, MrFun, let's just deport 'em!
                  **** deporting them -- let's just exterminate them if the poor are to be blamed for their own poverty.
                  A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                  • #10
                    Why cant we do that anymore anyway? Its not all that inhumane to take a person who cannot care for himself and take care of him, is it?
                    And essentially lock him away against his will? How are we to decide who can and can't take care of himself? It's a tough choice and a tough issue.
                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #11
                      And essentially lock him away? How are we decide who can and can't take care of himself? It's a tough choice.


                      We already have a system set up to take care of foster kids, even though it sucks and is overloaded, it works.

                      We could set up a similar system for adults.



                      Or we could create groups of citizens armed with bats who go out at night and

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                      • #12
                        We had a system for adults, and it was found to be cruel and arbitrary and was abolished. It was inhumane.
                        Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                        • #13
                          That's what I gathered, although I was too young to tune in to what was happening when it happened.
                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #14
                            The problem with homeless people is that they smell, and smelly people don't get laid.
                            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                            • #15
                              We had a system for adults, and it was found to be cruel and arbitrary and was abolished. It was inhumane.


                              I dont know the particulars about the kind of abuse that went on. However psychiatric medicines and therapy have progressed a lot since those days. Certainly you would agree that its more inhumane for us to leave them on the street to starve to death, or die from treatable illness.

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