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Originally Posted by WCE
To answer you both (rubecube and Cap'n);
The fact that the question and news story catching all the attention is where the responsibility for the removal of these homeless people lays instead of why the homeless are there in the first place (in a wealthy country choking itself on over-consumption) is sad.
The realization that as a society we are willing to overlook that little factoid and segway into this other question of legal responsibility, to me, is a sign that society has effectively failed.
Well, the type of society I want to live in anyway - the type that I would want my (future?) kids to be brought into.
The post was was just a quick little social commentary quip; nothing more and nothing less.
I was browsing through and it happened to catch my eye (especially as someone who has spent more than a few hours doing food drives and social advocacy here in Vancouver).
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Great post. The problem is not that homeless people are attracted to the front of this guy's store. The problem is that people are homeless, and are sleeping on a heating grate so that they don't freeze at night. We as a society will be judged by how we treat our weakest members. As some of the wealthiest people on earth, we need to find better solutions than "Move em somewhere else or I sue!"