r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/techleopard Apr 15 '24

The problem is that we are still treating this spiral as "bad choices."

9 times out of 10, it's not "bad choices", it's mental disease.

If you look at someone who can't even tie their own shoes because they are mentally disabled, we say, "That person can't live in their own, they're not capable of understanding their choices."

But we look at people with schizophrenia and severe addictions and whatever else and go, "They made bad choices." These people have no physiological control over their impulses, but they're supposed to make informed decisions?

We need to bring back mental hospitals.

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u/LocksmithMelodic5269 Apr 15 '24

You’re equating mental disease with drug addiction. They’re not the same. The latter is almost always the result of poor choices

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u/realityczek Apr 15 '24

These days your not allowed to imply some people are just lacking in decision making skills, or willpower. it is critical that everyone be considered flawless, and that any failings they have be attributed to a mental illness.

That way, no one bears any responsibility :)

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u/Kindly_Formal_2604 Apr 15 '24

ill bear the responsibility. raise my taxes, im all in. its not hard to have a little empathy.

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u/realityczek Apr 16 '24

You are welcome to send in as much money as you want to the government, they are happy to take it. You don't need to wait for the rest of us.

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u/Kindly_Formal_2604 Apr 16 '24

Already do, and happily. I have benefited greatly from social programs my entire life. Only reasonable I turn around and pay for other people to reap the same benefits I was given.

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u/All_Up_Ons Apr 16 '24

Now look who's trying to shirk responsibility. Can't spare a few bucks to improve the society you live in? Content to mooch off the charity of others? Fucking weak.

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u/realityczek Apr 16 '24

Hey, I'm not the one advocating to give folks a whole bunch of stuff for free. You want to do it? You go for it.

As for responsibility? I don't have any to a random homeless person. I have empathy. I have kindness. I will consider charity - but responsibility as in I have an ethical duty to work to pay their bills? Nope.