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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People saying to help are nuts.  Homeless people don’t operate in normal, rational ways.  Do not talk to this person directly.  That’s what homeless shelters are for.  Don’t touch his/her stuff.[/quote]

Dehumanizing is your first step.  Why don't you talk about where your thought process leads to?[/quote]

well, your thought process leads to large swaths of public space being dominated by encampments, crime, filth, drug dealing. And worse. I saw a developmentally disabled women being prostituted in an encampment, not a mile from the Capitol. So yeah, you let drugs, crime, open defecation, and sex trafficking/rape flourish all over the city - what does THAT lead to?[/quote]

That's completely misguided and a sick way to justify dehumanizing people.[/quote]

What’s misguided and sick is believing that your internal sense of moral superiority has anything at all to do with morality. There is nothing humanizing about allowing homeless encampments to grow unaddressed. It’s bad for the people who live there, bad for the neighborhood, and bad for the city. And will eventually inspire the dehumanizing that you claim to care about. You people seem to have this weird view that the only moral approach to human dysfunction  is to let it grow untouched and to deny that this has any impact. In fact I suspect you actually LIKE to see homeless encampments increasing. It gives you some kind of feeling of superiority to see your “unhoused neighbors” in the underpass, sort of like it was a zoo for your benefit. Meanwhile you would never do what it takes to make actual social change.

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