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How about finding ways to rehab these people instead of finding creatively hide them away at the fringes of cities and towns.

• alexbanks 7y ago
  If you don't want to be rehabilitated, you will not be rehabilitated.
  • freehunter 7y ago
    You have to at least try before coming to that conclusion.
    • alexbanks 7y ago
      Definitely. I'm by no means saying "Do nothing, let them die." But I'm also saying "We have to rehabilitate them" is not a good enough idea either - you can't make people want help.
      • wahern 7y ago
        > you can't make people want help. You can make people receive help. We just don't do that anymore because we've adopted a principle of radical autonomy, which apparently includes the "freedom" for the mentally ill and addicted to literally rot on the streets. Many homeless advocates seem to have similar fears as gun rights advocate. Whereas some people vociferously oppose gun restrictions because of an irrational fear of helplessness in the face of crime if they couldn't carry a gun anywhere and everywhere, some homeless advocates vociferously oppose forced psychiatric and drug abuse treatment because of an irrational fear--obscured by a simplistic, self-serving sense of empathy--that they'll somehow be forced into such treatment or otherwise lose their own autonomy. The boogey man of big government out to get you isn't just a motivating fear of the right, it's also a motivating fear of the left.