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Originally Posted by GGG
Your missing the point. Empathy is different from sympathy. No one is asking you to help them or give them money or feel sorry for them
The way you are posting you are saying they are human garbage who don't deserve to exist.
People are asking you to treat them as human beings with inherent dignity and you can do that and be in favour of moving panhandlers to other areas.
As an aside I used to live in Kensington when I was young a mind single. Part of living in the inner city is sharing it with all of the residents.
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I know what empathy means. I empathize with the business owner. You empathize with the miscreants.
It's not that they don't deserve to exist, but they shouldn't loiter in front of a store driving business away. Go exist somewhere else that doesn't hinder somebody else's right to earn a living.
I default to respecting people until they display disrespectful behaviour. Loitering in front of a grocery store begging for crack money is disrespectful. Not everyone has dignity, btw. Unfortunate but true.