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I agree completely and marvel at those who insist the rights of mentally ill homeless people to hang out at the library among families and children supersedes the rights of those families and children to peacefully read or work at the library without feeling threatened or harassed.[/quote]

Mentally ill people with homes are okay though?  I have suffered from clinical depression, and found valuable resources at the library. Thankfully I was not homeless. Should I have been excluded?   [/quote]

When you were in your clinical depression did you stop bathing for several months, mumble obscenities under your breath at other patrons, talk out loud to the air, leer at young girls, reek of smoke and alcohol and urinate in the stairwell? Or did you show up at the library and search the internet and browse the stacks, albeit very sadly?  [/quote]

It's not even just about not bathing for several months, but also sitting/laying around in filth including their crap and other people's crap, eating things out of trash cans, sleeping with vermin, etc. The homeless population has high rates of any or all forms of hepatitis, among other things. Diseases they then spread around by leaving their filth everywhere when they sit or lay on seats and couches at the library, use the bathrooms, DON'T use the bathrooms but just leave their excrement wherever they choose, etc. It's disgusting. Containing them should be a public health requirement.[/quote]

If you want to ban leering, or loud talking, urinating, just ban them.   (but no I am not going to discuss my depressive symptoms with you - depression is not the same as sadness, BTW - you really should learn more about mental illness in general).

And AFAIK, there is no evidence that homeless people in libraries are creating a public health problem - we have real public health problems we are doing too little about though.

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