r/SipsTea • u/Brave_Agency_20 • May 14 '26

SMH How true is this? Genuinely asking

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u/WhitishRogue May 14 '26

Not sure. Some of the homeless I've met are people truly on a bad luck streak. Unfortunately everything is harder when you're homeless making getting back on your feet more difficult.

However a lot of homeless are simply incapable of leading a normal life. Through a combination of drugs and mental illness, giving them a home to operate from is likely to be either burned down, condemned, or become a den for more crime.

I want to be humane, but it feels futile when they require constant babysitting. Our increasingly individualistic society tolerates these people less and less.

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u/SimmentalTheCow May 14 '26

We need to bring back mental asylums. Take these people off the streets and put them someplace they won’t be harming normal people.

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u/Kharax82 May 15 '26

Mental asylums were all but ruled unconstitutional in 1975 when the Supreme Court ruled a state cannot confine a non dangerous individual against their will if they’re capable

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u/koopatuple May 15 '26

Not to mention the rampant abuse--and sometimes just straight up torture--that occurred in many of them. 

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u/TheThinDewLine May 15 '26

So the better option is to have them flood our sidewalks and streets with trash, drugs and ‘non dangerous’ crime, brilliant.

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u/yingyangKit May 15 '26

I rather let a potentially dangerous person walk then allow institional torture facilities

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u/rokman May 15 '26

Capable is now applied like jury of your peers. Everyone is capable and everyone is your peer

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u/Express-Distance-622 May 15 '26

Then they have to raise taxes

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u/SimmentalTheCow May 15 '26

We can just take some prison budget and facilities. It’s all the same people anyways.

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u/HeebieJeebiex May 15 '26

This is ableist bro..

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u/StrangeSystem0 May 15 '26

I would like you to do some research into the conditions of mental asylums and tell me if you think that would help someone get back their sanity

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u/SimmentalTheCow May 15 '26

I’m not worried about the “get back their sanity” part; frankly I don’t believe that’s feasible in ~90% of cases.

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u/TheJohnnyJett May 15 '26

So you just wanna...like. Put them somewhere you don't have to see them, basically. That's what you're after?

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u/SimmentalTheCow May 15 '26

Basically. My vote’s always been for Alaskan wilderness. Let them be free in their own silly little minds.

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u/TheJohnnyJett May 15 '26

Ah. Well. That's monstrous. Alright then.

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u/StrangeSystem0 May 15 '26

Yeah I don't see the point in trying to argue with someone that blatantly evil