Agreed. I like within sight of the Armory, go to Dexter park every day, have never had a problem with what OP is talking about. The only problem I’ve ever had is light harassment from men who almost certainly had homes. So men—NIMBY? Obviously not.

You want people to give you the benefit of the doubt—to believe that you’re looking for an even-handed discussion of the issue. But then you talk about people who use the warming station like they’re animals. It’s clear you’re not coming to this discussion in good faith, so I see no point to engaging further.

This is assuming I believe OP: it •shouldn’t• be one or the other. But right now, it might be. While state and federal government and NGOs work on bigger solutions, all of us have to set our priorities. Mine is human life over the inconvenience of litter (I’m not saying anything about the shit because I spend plenty of time around the park and haven’t seen any).

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Absolutely. And I know these kinds of people have to exist but NIMBY (see how easily we can turn that around, OP?).

Also, OP says it’s happened twice in six months. The warming station hasn’t been open for six months, so perhaps OP wants to rethink his cause—->effect relationship.

I’ll accept your assertions and say—sure, stepping over human feces sucks. The litter problem sucks. But when it comes down to it, I think we’d all agree that stepping in shit or seeing some garbage is WAY better than even one person freezing to death this winter.

More an issue of zip code than what people are driving.