Re: Homeless people, what are your thoughts?
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Originally Posted by
brocktonblockbust

Originally Posted by
TitoFan
You know Brock, you're bound to get criticized for this... but you make a good point. A person subjected to the same thing day in and day out... and in quantities... tend to get desensitized. Example: Here in P.R. we have stray dog issues. As is to be expected, you routinely see dead dogs on the road, victims of the obvious traffic that uses the roads. I've seen people from other places without stray dog issues be completely horrified at their first sight of a dead dog on the street. But years of living with these conditions tend to become immune to that. Same goes for crime-ridden neighbors anywhere in the world with high murder rates. Pretty sure at some point people accept it as part of daily life, and just keep on going about their business.
You hit the nail on the head Tito. I have found that people who lead sheltered lives in little towns which are secluded from high population areas ...little towns in which there are absolutely no dangers or threats or challenges..... become very delicate and find things like homelessness Etc such a shocking thing. Unfortunately these are the people who are dictating public policy in the world ....people who live in Ivory Towers far away from everybody are the ones to tell the inner cities what they should do and what's horrifying and what's not horrifying. It's almost a passive-aggressive version of Let them eat cake. I personally have found nothing more grotesque than white rich people's horror at quite normal everyday things
I definitely agree that people get inured to and used to things they see regularly. It's much harder to survive in a small town if you're homeless, so there's are more homeless people in big cities. There is more crime, more opportunity and more diversity in cities, so city-livers are more used to those things.
I don't agree that there are never dangers, threats or challenges in small towns though. Everywhere has its positives and negatives. Also, just because someone is horrified at the number of homeless people it doesn't make them wrong. In an ideal world, nobody would be homeless would they?
I'm not sure about the situation in America, but in the UK it is not the people in little towns and villages who influence public policy. The population density in the country is much much less than in our big cities, so they have less Members of Parliament than those people who are in big urban areas. In Britain it is the urban metropolitan city dwellers who really drove public policy and many laws.
It's possible that the Brexit vote was largely driven by rural voters who felt 'left behind' by the metropolitan elite (though there are many conflicting theories about that admittedly)
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