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It shouldn’t be a difficult concept to grasp: if you allow people to have free hotel rooms, they won’t live on the street, and if you don’t, they will. Now, you might believe that they don’t deserve free hotel rooms, that Personal Responsibility means they ought to live on the street

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Personally I don’t lose sleep worrying that destitute strangers are getting things they’re not “entitled” to. To the extent I care about unearned privileges, I’m interested in the useless children of the ultra-rich rather than people who are given access to a bed, a kitchen, and a hot shower

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It is simply a reflection of what the values of that society are. Do they believe that people ought to be punished for “moral inferiority” by having to sleep under an overpass? Or do they believe that everyone deserves care and a basic standard of living?

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