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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
Have to put yourself in their shoes. I'm fortunate to have never been sucked into such activities, nor been prone to addiction.
We need to stop abandoning people or writing them off because they fell into a dark/difficult place, and essentially petitioning for them to get out of our way just so it doesn't inconvenience us or infringe on our lifestyle (with the exception of real dangerous situations), like they're clutter that we don't want to look at.
Too bad many people will treat others coldly and refuse to give people in need the time of day until they get all their stuff, realize it isn't all that, and figure out that the point was just being a better, kinder, and more giving person all along.
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Inconvenience us? Dude, transit is unusable downtown. That’s not infringing “lifestyle”.
The attitude that addicts are pure victims is problematic. They chose to use drugs. The dudes who partied in high school were super cool right up until they weren’t. That isn’t everyone… but its a lot.
If you can’t act rationally you need to be put away to keep the rest of us safe. There are mental health and recovery experts for that… but honestly most of the homeless guys i’ve known were pretty “
free man on the land!” before they went full meth.
They need to be sequestered till they can get their poop in a group.