Should people have a right to sleep on city streets?

I hate being attacked by mosquitoes. That's why I choose to sleep indoors.

 

No, that IS the answer. Well, that and families taking more responsibility for the failed humans they create.

 

It's referred to as rough sleeping, not 'living rough'.

 

Yet 'suffer' many nights, they do. An addict will always choose dope over comfort.

 

It was called roughing it back in the day. One of Mark Twain's best books.

 

And there was often a purpose to it, not simple dissolution.

 

So you've neither heard the expression "Every man for himself" nor are aware there exists a country called the U.S. Interesting.

The day that you can speak my language as well as I speak English ...... then we'll get down to the "crossing & dotting".

 

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer ... some of my earliest reading.

 

I wonder if they started executing drug pushers if the homeless population would recede in about a decade. Anyone done a study?

 

I see. So Australia let their homeless to defecate and die in the streets like here too. Kind of hypocritical for an Aussie to lecture us on our homeless problem when their is unresolved.

By the way, there are many veterans that are homeless. I guess they are "failed humans" too eh?

 

Those were fiction. Roughing it is Clemson's account of his time in the old west, silver mining, gold mining, and just how things were.

I'm pretty sure he took a few liberties, but his semi-historical books like life on the mississippi, the travelers abroad, and roughing it are the real gems.

 

Hypocrisy at its' best.

Some years ago I was in San Fransico and I saw rows of homeless as far as the eye could see on one of the major city streets. Many were veterans. But you know how it goes .... Only the lazy are unemployed - All veterans who live in houses are heroes - Anyone who lives in the street is a "failed human" (including veterans) - and Anyone who disagrees is a Communist/Liberal/Anti-American/Leftist/Russian-collusionist.

 

Trump would label those veterans "losers" and his base would cheer. Sad!

 

... and even "haters" if he could squeeze it into a sentence.

 

We certainly arrest people who are repeat illegal camping offenders, yes. And our homeless problem is nothing compared to US cities where it is perfectly legal! Can't you see how making it legal makes it worse?

 

UTTERLY PATHETIC! You're like a child just repeating yourself over and over again! I await your next laughably pathetic repeat!

 

Yes I have, and this is regardless of what the laws say about camping in public, right?

 

Well, I'm enough of a hillbilly to know that you don't sleep next to a stagnant pool of piss because that's where mosquitoes breed. Leave that 5 gallon can full of homeless urine alone, and you're not going to be getting a good night's sleep.

These mofos are not worried about mosquitoes. Those are just itchy nuisances. These guys are worried about rats! Maybe the guy in the tent next to you is using old pizza crusts to sleep on.
Then suddenly you wake up to some rat on your chest staring at you and wondering where your pizza crusts are.

There's a right answer to that question, and there's a wrong answer.

 

What question?

 

In other words, Australia have zero answer for its homeless population. Sad!

You think by making illegal, things will get better? LOL.

 

By my voting "Yes", I didn't mean that I feel that it's OK to literally sleep on sidewalks, streets etc but to sleep in public parks & other slightly secluded, public places.

Since I used to hitch-hike around Europe,, the US, the Mid East etc and frequently found myself stuck in odd places along the highways, Autobahns, the desert etc, I'd feel hypocritical condemning others who are forced by circumstances to sleep in similar locations.

 

Did I say that? We do probably the same as any city in the US, as in homeless shelters etc. I'm not claiming that we do more than others.

No, I think that by making it LEGAL, things will get WORSE.

 

You do realise what the poll question was don't you?

 

With a very thin mat and no pillow they sleep on the streets of Calcutta, and somehow they manage not to shet the place up.

My guess is it's all that exotic cooking smell that keeps the mosquitos away from them.

But yeah, that don't fit the poll question either.

 

In other words, your "yes" should really have been a "NO!"