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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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Absolutely right, a perfect and compassionately balanced post as to the issue thank goodness.
The only things I would want to push for is for Church leaders to stop preaching about the obscenity of homelessness while locking their doors day after day,wherein parts of the Church could help shelter some genuinely homeless individuals.
Also, the obscene empty buildings of former businesses lying left empty for months and years and even decades, that could be put to some use as to helping as halfway houses for the homeless too.
The main atrocious fact of all is that in 21st century Britain that there are any homeless and people with deep rooted problems as to being homeless too, at all across the UK.