Hats off to anyone who truly empathizes and engages with deepest suffering of the world each time they go to buy groceries. I really mean it. I thought I would do that, I said things like you’re saying here, and when push came to shove I couldn’t. If the price of living in a city is to be some kind of monk, it’s not for me.

What I won’t respect is people who have simply chosen a different way of excluding the homeless from their community - car dependence - being sanctimonious about people in higher density environment wanting the same things.