Local policymakers, do you think that by failing to effectively enforce laws against public camping, drug sales and abuse, and shoplifting, you are doing the homeless any favors? Is this “humane”? Homelessness is an evil and your lax policies have made it spread uncontrolled.👇
It’s a mental health issue? Yes. And do you think it is conducive to mental health to live in a society breaking apart at the seams because the “authorities” think anarchy is humane? If you had nowhere else to go but insane tent cities, your mental health would be strained, too.
For the “homeless,” insanity is rife; yet your policies put the insane on the streets.

Drugs absolutely ruin their lives; but your policies make drugs cheaper, more plentiful, and in “liberal” youth culture you lionize, “cool.”

You act as if you hate them. This isn’t humane.
Your residents and shop owners complain bitterly about spiralling crime and property values, and you wring your hands sympathetically, yet you shockingly and incredibly fail to draw any connection between your own irresponsible laxity and the social devastation it causes.
The solution to the homelessness explosion is not merely or mainly to give these people housing. That is a childish and simple-minded band-aid solution.

You need to attack the problem at its root.
The problem is this: (a) these people cannot or will not live in the complex, demanding systems of modern life, while (b) you allow them to sink further into chaos on the margins of that modern life, and (c) you make the chaos worse by removing the last checks on it.
Some people are so poorly-trained, disturbed, or corrupted that they cannot participate in the life you policymakers take for granted. Letting them commit crimes—creating a whole underclass of outcasts—only makes them more disturbed and corrupted. This is the opposite of humane.

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Uh,
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Just one reason I avoid Facebook whenever possible.
It's hard to believe they are listening to themselves.

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