Ten years ago i wouldnt have given it a 2nd thought.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by bowener

Almost none of the homeless you see choose to live that life by virtue of laziness. That makes little sense and has little evidence to justify it. I am pretty sure it takes a hell of a lot more to be homeless than it does to get up every week day at 6am and go to work from 9 to 5. They are most likely drunks or addicts due to self medication, or they use it as a way to get out of (temporarily) the shit existence they are in. Wouldn't you drink your mind into oblivion if you were mentally troubled and unable to get/keep a job or have a dry place to sleep at night? Probably easier to pass out and piss yourself than think about everything.

Have you ever talked to them? The quiet smiley ones? Not the ones batting at invisible birds. I do. Some of them are just totally happy to be lazy. I'd go so far as to say many of them. $5 will feed you in any city. It'll feed you in any town. Any professional pan handler can certainly beg, scrounge, dig, search, recover $5. Hell, McDonalds trash bins will feed you and the $5 can go to a couple 40s. For some people... to wake up, eat, drink, and lounge is the perfect life.

Not all homeless people are victims.
The one Mohillbilly beat the shit out of included.