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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
Not really the same though. A lot of the homeless population has some sort of addiction or mental illness or combination of both. You can offer all the programs and help you want, but they have to actually want it and continue to use them to get out of their situation.
You would think people with cancer for the most part would do whatever they could to get better.
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Homeless people often suffer the effects of issues out of their control (including mental health issues and societal issues) and the desire to fix their situation is less than ideal.
Cancer patients generally smoke, eat poorly, or do many other that have a great impact on the likelihood of developing the disease, and then seek help and a cure once they inevitably get it.
They really aren't much different. One's desire for a cure does not absolve them of fault for their diagnosis. I'm not trying to demonise cancer patients of course, it's a horrendous disease and no matter how you lived your life you should get any treatment you'd like. Homelessness is the same. It's not a problem to simply be policed or relocated.
Claims of the East Village failing because people were doing drugs in the toilet are based in profound ignorance. These are still people like you and I, and can be lived WITH, not around.