Public Disorder & the Decline of Vancouver's Livability

[FarmerHaight]

Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor

I see a Woman walking down the street constantly judging the people around her being left alone until she starts swearing at people and beiing C*nt.

Sorry am I supposed to feel sorry for this rude woman?

I have no sympathy for anyone pushing a dog in a stroller.

For the record, my wife's massage therapist works on the border of Gastown and Chinatown. Whenever she has gone with our baby in a stroller, everyone on the sidewalk yells "baby on the block", move over to the side, and let her pass.

Originally Posted by scryer

Looks like this meme applies directly to you when you deny all of the mainstream incidents being published on the daily on this thread at this point:

Sure, this meme attempts to dunk on people like me, but I do live downtown and I do walk everyday and I've never been harassed or confronted. I have seen some people yell at someone who looked at them the "wrong" way, but those confrontations have never turned violent.

I don't know what percentage chance there is that I'll be attacked by a random stranger for no good reason on a given day. Even if there are two totally random violent attacks each day in Vancouver that's still a 0.0003% chance (2 / 600k) that I'll be the next victim. Maybe that's a high enough probability for some people to advocate for mass incarceration, or to avoid going downtown, but it isn't for me.

I don't think anyone is denying that their is a mental health crisis and something should be done about it, but everyone on this forum has a different tolerance for danger, and we all have a different threshold that must be surpassed before the fearmongering becomes rational outrage.