Does anyone ever hear this one? It doesn't make sense to me. Why do we need the option to be homeless? Do you want to be Diogenes or what?
Does anyone ever hear this one? It doesn't make sense to me. Why do we need the option to be homeless? Do you want to be Diogenes or what?
I mean shit if someone really wants to be homeless let them. But no one can truly make that decision freely unless the option of not being homeless is as easy a choice to make
Exactly this. Once you've accounted for untreated mental issues, if someone wants to live on the streets they should be allowed to do so, provided it is a choice freely made.
Really, there's no reason (save capitalism) we couldn't construct our public spaces to accommodate people living comfortably in them.
But I don't imagine those people will ever number even 1% of the populace, frankly. It's kind of a silly gotcha.
I don't know if I'm down for the idea of freely choosing to live on the streets, since that presents an immediate hazard to a person's life.
Currently, certainly. As I said, I feel it's entirely possible to build our public spaces so as to accommodate the vanishingly few people who would choose to live such a life even once the other difficulties inherent to acquiring housing under capitalism were eliminated.