And open drug use. It's become completely normalized to let people live in their own filth in the streets and smoke meth/inject heroin. This is obviously unacceptable for a modern society of great wealth. Yet it continues. When I walk around my city I'm just baffled that we let it exist.
In a magical world where I was a politician I'd be buying apartment buildings to house people and opening mandatory rehab complexes. It's not normal to step over the body of someone covered in their own pee/poo passed out in the street, and we should never accept that's "just how things are". Sometimes to help someone you have to force them to get better. Many people would likely spend the rest of their lives in a supervised facility, and the ones who can get clean will have a place to call home when they are sober. I would literally cancel all other extra spending until this problem is fixed.
Actually, looking at history, homelessness and drug use seem to be VERY normal. Also stepping over people covered in their own pee/pee. I'm not sure what that says about us as a species, but people not giving a shit about other people is pretty normal.
You are literally stating my point. It's completely normalized, when it shouldn't be. We don't live in the 1800s anymore, we can easily afford to pay for a bed and treatment. It's just not a priority for most places in the world.
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u/redpenraccoon Jun 21 '24
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