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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are these even questions being asked in a civilized society? "Can a public accommodation ban members of the public for not having homes?" "Can a public accommodation ban members of the public who are drug addicts?"

The problem isn't that homeless people and drug addicts are allowed to enter libraries. It's that libraries are the last places left to go that are free and have bathrooms and any modicum of privacy.

If you hate seeing homeless people in your library, get agitated about the fact that the options are so bleak, and vote like you prioritize improving them.

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People like you would oppose the obvious solution, which is institutionalizing many of them against their will. Or putting them in work camps with there square meals.[/quote]

Damn right I oppose it. Did you know it’s cheaper to just provide housing than it is to “institutionalize” people against their will?[/quote]

Not the PP you're responding to, but did you know that providing housing to these people isn't going to solve the problems? I acknowledge that there is a small percentage of homeless who really 'should not' be homeless, in the sense that they make good (or at least not usually shockingly bad) decisions and aren't mentally ill and aren't addicted to drugs and are willing and able to follow the rules of a civilized society. These people were generally the paycheck-to-paycheck types who suffered some sort of loss and then everything spiraled down and now they're homeless and they really, really don't want to be. They're the types approaching businesses and holding up signs asking people for OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK because they want to feed themselves or their families and get back into mainstream society. This is a very small percentage. I would be very happy to help those people. I might even employ them myself, if I found myself in a position to do so. However, the majority are not like that. They spread filth around, promote crime, they bring down the tone of the cities and neighborhoods and generally make things worse for the vast majority of people living in those places. The majority of homeless people don't want to play by the rules, either because they're addicted to some sort of substance, or because they otherwise aren't mentally capable of making good decisions. You can give those people a house each, and they'd wreck it and sell it for drug money or whatever else. If it was as simple as just giving them money, the problem would have gone away. Plenty of people and money give them money. Those people are broken, and the question is what do you do with people who are broken. [/quote]

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