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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
You state concluding part of the problem is abundance of compassion as "absurd" and a few posts later someone thinks it's "no big deal" that our transit shelters are being used as drug dens. We have to be less compassionate and more passionate to do as you suggest (and I agree with). Go all in on a solution.
Whatever that solution is, it's going to be government funded so it being political is unavoidable. And, you're going to have the "lock them up" crowd and the "hug it out crowd" and everything in between. So, being ideological is unavoidable.
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Compassion isn’t accepting the circumstance of others and choosing to ignore it, so I’m not sure how an individual not caring if bus shelters are used as drug dens has anything to do with compassion. Considering nobody believes an addiction to be a positive trait and sleeping outside to be desirable, an abundance of compassion would likely lead to actively wanting those things to be changed or erased. Compassion for homeless addicts isn’t “leave them be,” so again, you’re being absurd.
And yes, it is currently political and ideological. My point was that it can’t be, because the right solution is going to be bipartisan and transforming what we view as competitive ideologies into complimentary ones. Suggesting the next “solution” is going to be political and ideological is just admitting that the next solution isn’t going to work.