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Originally Posted by Ammi
..it's human nature I think, that when there is a problem that doesn't seem solvabable or seems very difficult to solve, that it would be preferable for it to just go away and not be there...of course that doesn't actually achieve anything though does it, it just 'hide it from plain site' so we don't have to address it...homeless people are less a problem themselves and more people who have problems that have caused them to be in that situation in the first place..we can ship them away and hide them and the next day, there will be more because there will always be people with problems and some who feel that homelessness is their only choice in life...maybe they have left a home where they have been abused..?..maybe they've been failed dreadfully by a system that just doesn't work for everyone, those with mental illnesses etc...so ship them away and there will be more and ship them away and there will be more and ship them away and there will be more..island upon island upon island of the abandoned and failed, those difficult and inconvenient problems in life...or focus at looking at their problems and the reasons why they are homeless and some possible solutions for those and maybe, they would start to become less and not more and more...that would be a positive, abandoning them to an island where we don't have to think about them, where they 'don't become our problem anymore', would not...societies need to help people with problems, not send them away ...any one of our families/friends could become homeless at any point in time in their lives...
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Arista is offering a solution
we know the problem already
This is a solution - too many times we hold out hands up and say "this is the problem"
great
but identifying problems is easy
solutions are not that is why they are hard