> I've loaded many a homeless into my fire engine
Err... why? Were they on fire? Why is the fire department involved in homeless people?
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Err... why? Were they on fire? Why is the fire department involved in homeless people?
> this is a very loaded and offensive statement
So the fuck what? If you aren't allowed to consider anything offensive, we'd never discuss the difficult issues and make progress on them.
> something that can happen to anyone for any number of reasons, and there are different kinds of being homeless
Yeah blah blah blah he's not saying 'absolutely every homeless person is like this', he's suggesting that maybe the situation isn't as everyone assumes, which may be the case. But you've shut him down with some 'not every homeless' person bullshit.
> It's not that people choose a lifestyle as such
He didn't say choose did he? He said they prefer it - I presume he means prefer it to being institutionalised. You seem to suggest that he thinks they prefer it to being a millionaire, which of course they do not.
Have you ever heard of the idea of being charitable in how you interpret other people's thoughts?
> Being homeless is the suckiest thing you can probably reasonably imagine.
Who are you arguing with here? Who disagrees with you? All he said is that some of these homeless people may prefer being on the street to being taken into the care of the state.
You are destroying debate!