Los Angeles OKs sweeping ban on homeless camps near schools

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[–]StillLessons 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What are they going to do? Put them in jail? Then let them out on no-cash bail? This circle-jerk is beyond belief.

[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ideally there would be low security jails that look like regular gov. housing. What's probably going to happen is that they will just go to a different place in a nearby city.

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Bring back the "county poor farms" of yore where miscreants, alcohol addicts and even those down-and out could work growing food, doing animal husbandry and various tasks. A place to sleep, eat, clean up and even learn a trade. Those refusing to work do not eat. Re-enter society and be a nuisance and the the MODERN method will include permanent banishment from the USA.

Acquire that large isolated island where the incorrigible can be placed to live out their worthless lives.

[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What progressives don't get is that although criminalizing this sounds unethical, it's probably the only way to prevent that behavior in the first place. Ironically, what looks compassionate is actually much more cruel and harmful to society because it makes the problem worse by encouraging people to consider it as an option.

Living outside should only be the extreme last option for people, but right now it's one of the top options because there is nothing stopping them from trying it out. You save money on rent, get free money from gov., sleep outside on good weather (at least in LA), access to a lot of drugs and sex, and police can't do shit about it. If instead this was enforced properly, it would discourage people from considering it an option, and only the "real" homeless people would be seen outside, which I suspect is a fraction of what we see right now.