Submitted by SnortingCoffee t3_118eh0l in washingtondc
glopmod t1_j9h5lcu wrote
Reply to comment by WontStopAtSigns in Two-thirds of McPherson Square homeless remain on street, D.C. says by SnortingCoffee
The homeless are fucking everywhere in this city. They're there because it's where people who may give them money and food are and they had yet to be pushed out of somewhere else that will be closed for months to train them to be elsewhere. We are pushing a problem on top of, not under, a different rug, deciding to clean that run, and pushing it to another.
WontStopAtSigns t1_j9h6oa1 wrote
No.
This is not "ignoring the problem" or fixing homeless. They are a dozen vagrants removed from a central park.
We have neither added to or subtracted from the homeless population. They are where they would have been anyway, today.
glopmod t1_j9h71a1 wrote
Correct. If they leave this park, they go to a different place in the city. Very good. Your insistence that this park be clean for you does not resolve it.
WontStopAtSigns t1_j9h7ley wrote
Well the park is clean now, so while you work on that other business, my issue is in fact resolved.
glopmod t1_j9h8jt6 wrote
And a different park is not. In a year, they will come back to this park when the current dirty park is cleaned.
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If your issue is resolved, you lack object permanence.
WontStopAtSigns t1_j9h8osv wrote
That's what the ADHD pros tell me.
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