You can't help people who won't help themselves. A lot of mental illness, despite all of our medicine, can't be cured. Pills mask the symptoms, bring most to a baseline reality, but at the end of the day we can't force those pills down their throats.

Some of those people don't wanna be saved. Is it cruel to let them spazz out on the streets? Sure. Sure it is. Where the hell are we supposed to put them? Even if we lock all of them up, in their own special little rooms, and you magically find all the free money to pay for this, who gets to decide who gets in? Who chooses who gets the "luxury" of getting locked up? The average shrink can't tell the difference between a crazy person and a politician.

Despite all of that... what stops someone, taking their pills, from asking to leave? Do we just keep them there when they show improvement? There's no way to prevent them from stopping their medication once they leave this utopian prison cell. If they're non-violent there's really nothing we can legally do to hold them there against their will.

The hard truth is that half of those people on the streets are there because they chose to be.

The other half lack the education to pull themselves out of the gutter and into a decent job. I've known people who've lived paycheck to paycheck living in their car. None of them are there because they want to be. They're there because there's nowhere left for them to go.

It's not like the golden days where you'd get a job and you'd work there for 40 years. Those days are over.

Todays generation needs easier access to education. Needs less forced debt. Needs a military that isn't preying on the desperate.

Before we can dream of any of that we have to understand not all of those people can be saved. Mistakes were made. We have to accept that. Own up to it. Move on to fixing the problem instead of randomly accusing lucky people of the crime of being successful.