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The thing is that the city and the culture sets a very bad example by doing nothing to support homeless people (showing this, not telling this), which leads people to perceive that these people are worthless and that they can be victimized without limit.

I think of this episode of American Greed

https://www.cnbc.com/2010/02/08/American-Greed:-The-Black-Wi...

about two elderly women who killed homeless men to collect life insurance. They were quite shocked to discover that the state of California would pay for a homicide detective to investigate the case of somebody who the state treated like dirt when they were alive.




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