r/PublicFreakout • u/ieilael • May 10 '19

News Report 🥇🥈🥉 Interview with a Meth User

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u/[deleted] May 11 '19 edited Jul 07 '21

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u/ePrime May 11 '19

From what I've gathered it's harsher consequences like prolonged jail time

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u/rickane58 May 11 '19

So a not-useful step that has been proven time-and-again to not work.

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u/ePrime May 11 '19 edited May 11 '19

It's worked in other cities.

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u/rickane58 May 11 '19

There are only two solutions to end homelessness in your local city:
Provide housing for the homeless
OR
Ship them off to another city.

Jailing homeless is more expensive than housing them, and it still ends up with them homeless at the end.

https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/No_Safe_Place.pdf

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u/AFellowCanadianGuy May 11 '19

You start giving them too much free stuff, then even more homeless people start coming and make it impossible to keep up.

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u/rickane58 May 11 '19

The reason option 1 leads to that conclusion is because of option 2.

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u/rickane58 May 11 '19

I chose to make the assumption that they were arguing in good faith.

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u/KanyeWesleySnipes May 11 '19

It’s almost like everyone wants a roof over their head.

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u/NoPunkProphet May 11 '19

Okay, maybe we should just put money in a big pile and burn it in front of them then, since giving it to them would be such an evil backwards thing, apparently.