• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s been my street. Literally I grew up in Germantown PA, and have lived in Seattle long enough to have had a whole ass homeless encampment living outside my apartment building and going through our dumpsters. Breaking into the building in order to have somewhere warm and dry to sleep. You don’t get to pretend I don’t know what I’m talking about just because you’re mad that I don’t have sympathy for a man who literally put himself in harms way using untried methods to make himself judge and jury over vulnerable people.

    I’ve walked past people in the goddamn hallway with needles in their arms. I’ve literally had to interact with people who are high out of their minds, their speech completely unintelligible because they can’t get meds they need and they’re using street drugs to self medicate. Homeless people are vulnerable people with a whole host of problems including having the live outdoors. Making them “pass tests to gain the approval” of a man with literally no authority over anyone just because he caged the wording to say he wanted to “help” doesn’t change the fact that he did something dangerous and he paid for it with his life.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t have sympathy for a man who literally put himself in harms way using untried methods to make himself judge and jury over vulnerable people.

      he did something dangerous and he paid for it with his life.

      He tried to help keep his community safe by treating poor, disadvantaged folks like human beings.

      Hey but you had to walk past addicts, so we all know you had it worse, and clearly have the moral high ground 🙄

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        2 months ago

        You’re missing the part where it was only the ones that met his approval that he was willing to help. I don’t agree with it when actual aid nonprofits do the same and I don’t agree with it when some random does it either. If you want to help the homeless you take the good with the bad. Drugged out people need food and water too. If they’re a danger to themselves or others that doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of one random guy.

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          2 months ago

          Ok, so you’re not allowed to try to help people unless you help everyone. And if you’re just a regular person doing what you can, you’re actually in the wrong and deserve to be stabbed whilst trying to break up a fight. Gotcha. Great point, dude.