homeless rant
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- cannonball19780
Lets not forget that "mentally ill" just means that someone's way of thinking doesn't fit in with our system's normative constraints.
- sea_sea0
i just got home, and ran across a few homeless people on the street, it seems to be one of those nights for them because first i saw a guy running across the road, not minding traffic or his life for that mater and a girl running after him crying :( sad...
and then a block away i saw one on a bike take a plunge. :(i totally agree with salisae btw, most all these people have some form of mental disability or physical addiction. sad again.
- mg330
I worked with a guy once who saw a young kid begging for money outside a McDonalds in a snowstorm. He needed money for food and was maybe 12 or something. So my friend offered to buy him food - as much as he wanted - and the kid acted shitty about it. He ended up taking the food - they actually sat down and ate together - but it's sad to think that he really wanted money because some shithead mom or dad sent him out there to beg for them.
- this has happened to me before. scumbag parents.inteliboy
- craighooper0
Regarding the original thread post...
Yes, there is a reason why they have become what they have. Have some compassion—I highly doubt they want to be in the situation they are in. It's a nasty symptom of modern life. There were WAY less homeless people in the 1960's, 70's, and early 80's. Why is this? Because of government cut-backs and hospital closures across North America—the result—a flood of mentally ill people walking the streets.
It's fucking tragic—and we can fix it. We can fly into space, we can feed, clothe, and house these human beings.
- spmitch0
armsbottomer, say you walk to the corner store and are asked for money by two to three different people and then on the way home the same ones ask for money, do you give each of them money...
do you walk around with a little bag of change to provide for the homeless? Ask because this is the scene in Downtown DenverI'm sick of it - Fuck let them get jobs like the rest of us
"steps down off soapbox"
- magnificent_ruin0
they may not have abandoned their integrity and self respect, they may be mentally ill. even if not, we'll see how well you do if you lose your family and your job and can't get another
- skt0
sorry if i missunderstood your point mcleod, i didn't realise you had called the police in order to help them out. for some reason i thought it was bacause, frankly, you were tired of looking at them as you drove to your job every morning.
as you were.
- yeah man, he's got such a big heart we should all say "we are sorry"...pr2
- armsbottomer0
sprnitch: its the first person who asks and looks in like they're in need of it. if i'm out of spare change, i don't dig into my wallet. i'm not not trying to solve poverty in the city i live in. i just think that my spare change will go to better use in the hands of someone who needs it. many of these people are too mentally/physically sick to get jobs.
- moth0
Yeah because I hear it's really easy to get a job when you don't have an address an shit. And everyone's always really happy to spare 10 minutes for a chat with you.
And "Into the Wild" was possibly the worst film ever made about a spoilt wanker. That kid needed a fucking good hiding. Twat.
- but he touched everyone he met mike. he was truly blessed.and free.skt
- haha, i think the book gave less of a "spoilt wanker" feeling.armsbottomer
- that film annoyed the fuck out of me.skt
- Well he didn't touch me.moth
- he was touching people??? i must have miss that part of the movie... weirdo.sofakingbanned
- spmitch0
I'm not attacking you personally, but society has conditioned us to believe that we are bad people if you do not give money.
If the Mayor had to deal with it day to day the issue would get sorted asap