Jimmy_kong253 t1_j6smwfw wrote on February 1, 2023 at 4:43 PM

I feel so bad for those trust fund kids whose mommy and daddy are paying $5,000 a month so they can live in a one bedroom apartment in a trendy part of Manhattan having to see homelessness

ChrisFromLongIsland t1_j6t5odz wrote on February 1, 2023 at 6:37 PM

I feel bad for the person working overnight as a porter in a restaurant for 40k a year who has to take the subway at night and can't find a car without a homeless person who smells. The same person having to walk by an encampment while they are on their way home from work at 3am but have to deal with a mentally ill person who yells at them everyday while the person has to think to themselves this is why I have to carry a knife for the 1 day the homeless person with untreated schizophrenia has a delusion and decides to attack. For every millionaire trope there are hundreds of thousands of people trying to goto work or school that have to deal with him homeless often. I care about the people who are not rich. These are the silent majority in NYC who have to deal with street crime and homeless way more than rich people.

Silvery_Silence t1_j6ttfnr wrote on February 1, 2023 at 9:03 PM

Wow it’s amazing that there are any New Yorkers at all who don’t feel like you do. I actually consider it a badge of pride that I don’t knowingly or willingly associate with anyone like you and most people I know here are working people who would not talk about homeless people this way. You know how I feel about most homeless people? Profoundly sorry for them. Have they sometimes been a nuisance to me in my decades of life here? Sure. But my overwhelming emotion when thinking about them is somehow not disgust.

ChrisFromLongIsland t1_j6wng8x wrote on February 2, 2023 at 12:34 PM

So you support letting mentally ill people who can't help themselves die in the streets? You like the current situation and would want more of it?

Maybe government can to more to fix the situation and help the mentally ill homeless. Or maybe everytime someone actually tries to help they are shut down by people who walk by someone with schizophrenia and thinks wow they are living there best life and anything done to help them is actually hurting them. I think your divisive opinion without trying to actually solve a public health crisis in a relatively small population of people is why nothing substantial is done to help people with severe mental illness who cannot help themselves.

Silvery_Silence t1_j6x66f4 wrote on February 2, 2023 at 3:04 PM

Of course I support more aid to homeless people. My main problem was that your overall tone regardless homeless people is one of clear contempt. But keep reading sh$t into my comments that isn’t there to make yourself look better. Homeless people yell at you and smell sometimes, poor you.