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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYT article says libraries are constantly dealing with opioid overdoses. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/nyregion/librarians-opioid-heroin-overdoses.html

The comment section has people from all over the US, city and suburbs, saying they avoid their library because they're too scary, de facto homeless shelters with drug dealing, obvious mentally unstable, sex offenders surfing porn, violent crime, bed bugs, body odor, needles in the bathroom, overdoses.

One comment asked "Why are homeless drug addicts the most important people in society all of a sudden? Libraries were not intended for this. Families can't go there anymore, readers are scared. All that matters is the junkies. What kind of a world are we living in?"[/quote]

Our library stopped allowing bags and suitcases in the library (you are allowed only one small purse or backpack) which helped and locked the children's bathrooms (need to ask a librarian for a key).  It is a problem but you cannot reasonably refuse to allow an adult into a public library.

[b]A solution would obviously be to have more welcoming and safe places for the homeless and mentally ill to go.   If the public library is all that is open to them, then that is where they are going to go. [/b] [/quote]

This.  If you hate having your libraries overrun by homeless people and drug abusers, give the homeless and drug abusers a better option.  There is nothing wrong with doing the right thing for a selfish reason.  [/quote]

mental instability...... much like the depressed kids who end up shooting others or themselves.[b] It's a  huge problem in this country and only getting worse as society  becomes more progressive and selfish.[/b] In my third world country the only homeless are the truly poor such as those who are missing hands, blind, very old, etc.[/quote]

You are correct.

As areas get more progressive these problems in rease.

It is selfish to allow and in some cases encourage or reqard people to engage in behaviors that are dangerous and destructive to themselves and others.[/quote]

Unfortunately it is the case. Our progressivism means that the mentally unstable have rights that also must be respected so they can't be locked up and sent to mental institutions against their will. Of course, being mentally unstable they don't know that's the best solution in many circumstances. So they can't be held against their will and prevented from leaving an institution or group house. It's why so many go straight to the streets where they can indulge in drug habits. The third world countries have no such restriction, which you'd find if you looked closely at the matter (and also find that many of the third world institutions are very lacking of resources and have their own problems too).

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