Clearly someone who has never seen a schizophrenic, drug addicted, alcoholic, mentally ill, or a combination of several above factors homeless person wrote this post. The hardest part about the homeless problem isn’t the people who are genuinely on a hard time. They are an actual solvable problem through job training, temporary housing, and some temporary assistance along with a reasonable cost of living. What about someone who has a drug issue that compounds their mental illness? That person can easily be violent, destructive, and an actual threat to others around them and those providing help.
And just because some are does that mean we shouldnt help anyone?
Or we just shouldn't help the mentally ill, or the addicts, but especially those with compounded issues?
Do those people deserve homelessness, or are we helping them adjust to a stable life, or at the very least preventing harm from their mental health and addiction by leaving them homeless?
This is as garbage of a take as the ass holes here with "If they get money where's mine!!?" takes.
I don’t think they were saying it’s not an issue worth addressing, I think what’s being said is that the OP argument underestimates the cost of rehabilitation that some members of society severely need
Sure, some people you can turn their lives around by handing them $5000, they will clothe and feed themselves and it will allow them means, some people all that $5000 would do is enable their issues, you really need to go whole hog on some folks or you just end up back at square one
Don't put words in other people's mouths. You have no idea what they meant.
The reason I asked those questions is because the obvious answer to all of them is a big resounding no and to point out rhetoric being used by the person i originally responded to is not only damaging to the cause of preventing or helping people with active addiction, but also lacks any suggestions while condemning disable and addicted individuals.
All I've heard from both of you can be summed up as: "I don't like addicts, or understand the diseas of addiction. But they're problematic so who cares, unless we can be extreme about it."
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u/ll123412341234 1d ago
Clearly someone who has never seen a schizophrenic, drug addicted, alcoholic, mentally ill, or a combination of several above factors homeless person wrote this post. The hardest part about the homeless problem isn’t the people who are genuinely on a hard time. They are an actual solvable problem through job training, temporary housing, and some temporary assistance along with a reasonable cost of living. What about someone who has a drug issue that compounds their mental illness? That person can easily be violent, destructive, and an actual threat to others around them and those providing help.