homeless rant
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- locustsloth0
The fact is you DON'T have to give them money. If you feel like it's their fault that they are in the situation they are in (an amazing determination since you probably see an average of 60sec of their life), ignore them, don't give them money. If they are doing something illegal, like defiling your residence (as in the druggie in the basement story a couple pages back) or stealing, you call police, like you would for any other person, homeless or not.
But to take up the righteous attitude that they shouldn't besmirch your vision, and all this apparent anger towards them signals something is up with YOU. Either you resent the fact that they are able to exist without the constraints that you live with, as has been mentioned here (ignoring, of course, that they have a multitude of constraints of their own) or the fear of becoming them is so great that you want to push them away, get them out of your sight so the specter of you ending up in that situation can't cross your mind. There have been times in my life where i felt this way and it's just like any other fear, you can't successfully stuff it down or pack it away unless you deal with it head on.Otherwise, If they biggest offense is making you "sick of seeing them", live and let live. If you really want to help, don't call the cops, buy them a sandwich or a gallon of water.