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Iridium_Pumpkin t1_iyy1vuc wrote

Reply to comment by Evening_Presence_927 in What forced hospitalization feels like in New York City, as Mayor Adams pushes for more by psychothumbs

Yeah, I don't think you really get what I was going for. I meant that they do not want doctors, do not want treatment, do not want medication. They just want complete unfettered freedom to do whatever they want.

Obviously they would not choose this as their default setting if given the choice. But they'd rather live with the crazy than treat it.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_iyy9m55 wrote

Please show me proof actual homeless people are like that.

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Iridium_Pumpkin t1_iyyb8o9 wrote

Go work in homeless services for a decade then get back to me.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_iyybm97 wrote

Lmao like you’ve worked there?

Do you really think someone would do that? Tell lies on the internet?

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Iridium_Pumpkin t1_iyycyzq wrote

No, but I have a relative that did. Burned out after ten years and left him very disillusioned.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_iyyf06g wrote

And so you take that out on… the homeless? Why not the people in power who could’ve helped him?

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Iridium_Pumpkin t1_iyyho5x wrote

No genius,I'm saying these views because I know someone that worked in the sector for a long time, and basically what he said was that there is no real way to solve the homeless problem until you separate out the junkies to forced treatment and the severely mentally ill to permanent institutions.

Then you can start dealing with the people that can actually be helped. But the junkies and severe crazies ruin a lot of the services and public goodwill for everyone that could genuinely use the help.

And that's why I'm with Adams; lock up the batshit crazy ones where the won't be a danger to themselves, but chiefly longer a danger and public plague to others. I'd love for the subways not to smell like piss anymore. Or have to avoid the empty train car because theres a dude masturbating in it.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_iyzpnd5 wrote

> No genius,I'm saying these views because I know someone that worked in the sector for a long time, and basically what he said was that there is no real way to solve the homeless problem until you separate out the junkies to forced treatment and the severely mentally ill to permanent institutions.

So you’re defending your argument with anecdotal evidence? Nice one lol

> Then you can start dealing with the people that can actually be helped. But the junkies and severe crazies ruin a lot of the services and public goodwill for everyone that could genuinely use the help.

And still you’ve yet to show any concrete evidence that that happens. 🤔🤔🤔

> And that's why I'm with Adams; lock up the batshit crazy ones where the won't be a danger to themselves, but chiefly longer a danger and public plague to others. I'd love for the subways not to smell like piss anymore.

Lmao then you’re backing the wrong horse. His plan does not do that.

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happybarfday t1_iz1odzi wrote

Walk out your fucking door lol... you're just putting your fingers in your ears and screaming LALALA while some homeless guy is right now shitting his pants and groping a woman on the subway... you're the reason nothing ever gets accomplished, because your delicate sensibilities can't handle the fact that people are far more fucked up than you want to admit and your solutions are pathetically ineffective.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_iz2c71j wrote

So no proof. Cool.

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happybarfday t1_iz2dt97 wrote

You really think I give a shit to go hunt down some research paper to prove shit to a troll on the internet? You're not worth that.

If you've never seen a homeless person do anything even slightly distasteful in public then you either are a billionaire who never leaves their upper east side mansion, you're blind, a shut-in, or you don't live here in the first place...

Yes right okay, I'm totally making this shit up and every homeless person is just a nice, friendly, totally sober, totally mentally stable guy or gal who lost their job and they just need a free apartment and $1000 and they will be perfectly fine forever.

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