[TheHonestMaple]

It's the letting mentally unwell and drug addicted individuals walk around in the state they are in that is cruel. I just personally think we need a more heavy handed approach to giving them the help that they need. Because they are not in the correct state of mind to help themselves. I don't think they're a pest, I think they deserve respect and need help and I believe the system we have in place currently only makes things worse. I also think the system we have in place now completely lacks respect for these people, and only gives them the tools they need to further cause damage to themselves and the community.

We had a presumably mentally unwell individual burn down a historic building in the heart of the city this week, only to be released back into the public 24 hrs later. And to call that out for how ridiculous it really is, you'll be branded 'hateful'. These people need help, and help does not come in the form of leniancy in my opinion.

I walk around downtown all the time, and I see people in various states of complete psychosis due to drugs. It's sad, I feel for these people. I think to myself, that's someones daughter, son, brother. And we just allow them to continue in that state? Harming themselves and our community as a whole. We give them needles, food, tents, etc, so that they can just stay that way? Wandering around the streets in a drug fueled haze? It would be nice to see our health system take a more 'tough love' approach and actually help these people out, rather than these soft and useless approaches we have now.

Sorry if I touched a nerve Matt602. But this is how I feel about the topic.