If it wasn't completely illegal, I'd argue to give each homeless person $10,000 and to exile them for life from the state of California.
I guess if you get arrested in California after that maybe you get exiled to Siberia or something
I guess if you get arrested in California after that maybe you get exiled to Siberia or something
Because morality isn't measured by how much money you can save watching your neighbors rot. Well...to some people anyway. We start with the desire to benefit others as the first principle and then determine how to do it. That's called being prosocial rather than antisocial.
The poster was responding to somebody that was being forced to do something that they didn’t want to, and the response was something along the lines of moral obligation. This is obviously not the shared opinion, and has no objective basis to it, so that argument could be, and has been, abused to justify any kind of force.
It would be more honest to just admit that the situation has a lot more to do with power than morals, which I think is what you are getting at: there is no voice, only exit.
But actually you are wrong about that. I paid California taxes for several years spent overseas. The only tie I had was a bank account.
Side note: there are some other jurisdictions around the world that have some innovative public funding models based on payer choice with minimum contribution set by vote. This is sort of like the Marilyn Vos Savant “you cut I choose” model, and it seems to me that such a market model would vastly outcompete the command contribution model for delivering social benefit.
A significant amount of the homeless, really do just need a bit of help. But they also need to get out of California, it's by far the worst state in America for working-class people.