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Merlot

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9. "These people" like to be on the street?

Reply to secondwind (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 18, 2022, 10:46 AM

Jul 2022

All homeless people are the same - they all like to be homeless?

Assuming they "like to be homeless" is an excuse. Our society is failing them and also failing people who live near them.

As for live and let live - have you ever had a homeless person set up camp on the street in front of your house? Or try to sneak into the laundry room to sleep?

Locking them up is not the solution, the money spent to lock up a homeless person could be much better spent on resources for them.

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