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Do you think homeless people are responsible for the situation they are in? (thelemmy.club)
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In your humble opinion, are the majority of the homeless people responsible for the situation they are in? IOW: do they deserve to be homeless, because it is their personal failure or do they not, because they are a victim of the circumstances (the reasons they are where they are are largely out of their control)? Have you ever talked to homeless people? Are they really just "bad people" and "will never change" or are they hardworking individuals who've just had a punch by life that they were unable to stand after?

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[–] 1 point 7 hours ago

I only ever go to know the situation of one homeless person closer. It was in Poland, about 25 years ago... I was told that this guy went from orphanage straight to the military and when he go out, after years of living under very strict rules he simply wasn't able to/didn't wan to follow any orders anymore. When some people helped him find a job he didn't show up the first day there was a good weather because he preferred to go for a walk. So not a bad person but also not a hardworking person. Simply someone that went trough a bad system and wasn't prepared to function in a society. Every case is different.

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