🚀 go-pugleaf

Earlier I suggested:

: Go someplace else, obviously -- someplace that isn't covered
: by the sleeping ban.  Someplace that isn't Santa Cruz, in
: other words.


Proprclr <balanco01@yahoo.com> rebuts thusly:

> Unfortunately, sleeping bans are in effect in many, many areas,
> all over America. 

"Many, many areas" isn't the same as "all areas."  Obviously,
vagrants will eventually find places to sleep legally if they
keep looking for them.  Hint: they'd have the best luck in 
places that aren't either upscale or already overrun with 
their kind.  Places that are either rural or on the outskirts
of town, as somebody else put it.


> Many (if not most) of these places don't even have this fact
> posted in public.

I suspect that's because when the laws were enacted, it never
occurred to anybody that sleeping in public would become a 
common enough problem that signs explicitly prohibiting it
would be necessary.  Kinda like how one seldom sees signs
warning against public urination, even though you can bet your
ass and hat that that's illegal in just about every city and
town as well.

Look, the ultimate solution to this stuff (as opposed to the
Final Solution) would be for these indigents to either get
their lives together, remove themselves from civilization,
or croak.  Adapt, migrate, or die, in other words.  Pick one.

It's to be expected that polite society is going to look askance
at the sort of behavior associeted with vagrants: public sleeping,
public shitting and pissing, panhandling, and poor hygiene, to
name several that come readily to mind -- not to mention the
often poor social skills and outright deranged behavior that's
common among such people.  Why do bleeding-heart liberals like
you have such a powerful instinct for defending society's failures
and fuckups?



Geoff

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