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Originally Posted by rofina
To be completely honest;
1. Self interest - I live in East Van, Hastings Sunrise - ish for reference. The spill over effect is real, and conditions are deteriorating across the City. B&E's, theft from cars, stolen bikes, etc. I would lie if I said that being more affected personally isn't a problem. Ignoring COVID - our building has gone from averaging 3-5 break in a year to one a month over the last 24 months or so.
2. This is becoming embarrassing. We can deal with this, there are real solutions but leadership is content passing the buck.
3. Guilt - I see the mental conditions and the mental decay in some of these people on a daily basis. I think it finally hit me emotionally that I'm complicit in enabling this tragedy by remaining silent. We have been fed this notion that somehow leaving people to rot on the streets and literally die is compassionate. Its literally perverted our views of what compassion is.
4. I don't want to be hypocrite. Too many of my friends, acquaintances, etc in the past left Vancouver for reasons that in my view could have been affected by them voicing their opinions in more meaningful/firm ways. I made life choices that make me a little less susceptible to conventional pressures.
5. We see where this ends - San Fran/LA. I don't want an App to tell me locations of human feces in the City. I want a city that has no human feces to worry about. I don't want typhoid and cholera outbreaks, I don't want open air stolen goods markets to become normalized.
These are not impossible goals - and before it really becomes completely untenable someone needs to speak up about this ongoing failure.
There is enough naivety left in me to feel that there are enough kind hearted people to care or at least enough self interested people to want more positive change before its actually too late.
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Originally Posted by Metro-One
The problem is, it is scary to speak out against it, because it seems once you do all those supporting voices on forums such as this seem to disappear, and then you left alone to hang out to dry against the social justice mob.
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In this day and time it will always be scary to speak out. One of the main reasons why corruption gets away with its doings is that good people stand by and say nothing. However if you wanted to convey a message more influentially then all you have to do is use video content. Sometimes you can't just tell people that something's wrong, you have to show them.
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Originally Posted by Sheba
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Good for them. Let's welcome these crooked politicians into the age of accountability starting with their pocket books!