Edit: A Way To Help The Homeless
Homeless people make most of us uncomfortable. It’s just a fact. These North Idaho nomads are easiest to deal with when they never cross our path. Huddled in tents in urban forests is right where we want them; not on the sidewalks we travel, in the stores we frequent, in the ebb and flow of our happy days and happy nights. We choose to misunderstand them not just because it’s the easy way out, but because the possibility of our one day becoming homeless scares the hell out of us. We hold our noses and brand them with the white-hot iron of irresponsibility. After all, the bad decisions they made led them to this pathetic condition, right? Wrong. In many cases, mental illness led them here. Alcohol or drug abuse isn’t the root cause; mental illness which triggers desperate self-medication measures is/ Mike Patrick , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.
Question: Does an encounter with a transient make you nervous?
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