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hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
This is a great strategy. Let’s see how much blood they can squeeze from those stones. Can’t afford a place to live? Lets charge rent for that park bench!
But of course the real idea here is to give municipalities the ability to harass people. It’s certainly not about the fines. The less annoying homeless will be driven off by the harassment and then all that will be left is the annoying ones which might be a more manageable number to throw in jail.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
Homeless people have no money and they need drugs. Where do you think they get their money and other various items?
hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Homeless people have money, just not enough for housing. People with houses also use drugs. All people get money from different places. Not sure what your point is but your generalizations aren’t useful.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
Rich people use drugs as well, but they do not decrease the economic quality of the area and generate a lot of crimes and nuisance. For tourism, it is necessary to clean up the encampments, and sleeping homeless to market the attractions. Since they are poor and addicted to drugs, probably feel screwed by society, they are more likely to steal. They have not taken a shower in ages, do you enjoy being next to stinky people?
hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
You’re making a lot of spurious assumptions and generalizations. The overwhelming majority of the time the homeless are just minding their own business. Some are certainly more annoying than others, some smell worse than others but that doesn’t justify criminalizing all of them nor does it justify abdicating moral responsibility as a society to care for those that often for no fault of their own fail to integrate into the structures that have evolved. There are other solutions, none of them are going to be perfect. Maybe criminalizing sleeping on the street is fine as long as the city provides places to sleep that are reasonable.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Frontlines in Ukraine?