It’s not a hard concept. You want to give people housing. I want people to pay for their housing. What exactly do you mean by giving people housing?
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Access to shelter. Like, if you're homeless, you have somewhere to stay. Simple concept that definitely exists already, we just need more of it in SF. Is your argument that these shelters shouldn't exist?
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My argument is that opening shelters without stipulation are a bad idea. If you open a shelter, drug testing and mandatory work of some sort should be required. Sheltering people without stipulation is bad policy.
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What's good about a policy that turns an addict away from shelter because they succumbed to their addiction? What good does that do for anyone?
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It’s more moral to discourage addiction than to create conditions that encourage it.
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How is one “creating conditions that encourage” addiction by sheltering the homeless, exactly?
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By sheltering them without stipulation. I provide the example of sheltering them with drug tests and some means of employment.
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What good does turning away an addict do? It just puts them back on the street, where they are more likely to succumb to their addiction even further, commit crimes, and harm themselves. Back to square one.
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Give them a choice. Rehab or jail. If they choose rehab, then they are willing to be rehabilitated. If they choose jail, we still rehabilitate under more restrictive surroundings. Make them choose.
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Is this assuming that a crime has been committed? Or is the scenario entertaining the idea jailing addicts for addicts?
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Jail addicts who commit crimes like shitting in public.
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What's moral or even the point of jailing someone who is so desperate to use the bathroom that they have to shit in the street? And let's say we do jail them, then what? They're out in a week tops and they'll do it again. We can skip all of that by just housing them.
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