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- Jul 1, 2025
Yeah I hate to say it but I think its a clever solution. Once he got back on his feet he worked a bunch of service jobs that put him in contact with homeless people all the time (liquor store) so I can see why he came up with it.I understand where that idea came from. Dealing with them constantly would give me that attitude too, and I really dealt with them in university. Nothing like having one on the bus (that I never took again) screaming at the top of his lungs and threatening to hurt everyone, and nothing was done about it. The countless stories that I hear about how stores, restaurants, and fast food places locking their bathrooms because some vagrant gets in there, smearing shit and piss everywhere before overdosing left me with much less sympathy. I know it's not ideal, but I have developed thoughts if they're just going to die, why not let them at this point? They aren't grateful for help and often attack the people who save them in the first place.
You don't hear about homeless assholes in smaller societies that still struggle with survival daily. I wonder why? We first hear of a bum in Ancient Greece, obviously society had reached a point where a person could choose to survive on the street and argue it was a philosophical choice.
Modern society is so fucking optimized that we have a nations worth of bums, produced so much food we gave away much of it to third world countries from 1960-modern day and likely contributed to places like India experiencing a surge in population (oh boy thanks for that you bleeding heart fools...) Bums are basically like any other invasion species at this point, no natural predators to thin their numbers.