A home for the homeless discussion (a thread about it)

[enragedcamel]

Making homelessness a criminal offense does not solve the issue. It doesn't even contribute to solving the issue. The only thing it does is allow the police to move "undesirables" out of the city and out of sight of people who get their panties in a bunch at the sight of a disheveled person wearing rags and muttering to themselves. Such people's thought process isn't "wow, I'm clearly fortunate compared to these people, I wonder how I can help them." It is "wow, I feel so UNSAFE right now, someone needs to do SOMETHING about this mess! How dare these filthy, smelly sub-humans make me feel uncomfortable?!"

I don't think a reconciliation is possible because the two sides aren't merely having a difference in opinion. They just have fundamentally different worldviews and personal values.