So I wind in this debate with a Right Winger who was essentially demonizing homeless people by claiming all drug addicts and mentally ill and thus to deserve help getting a place to live. When I objected he of course used a tired line that hates facts and threw up some statistics. The thing he missed of course what my objection was it wasn't against the idea drug addicts and mental illness are present in homeless people it's the idea that it's the sole cause of their homelessness and my reasoning goes as followed
If drugs were causing homelessness then why are all the rich drug addicts, not homeless same logic applies to mental illness? Oh yeah because they're rich. It's almost like poverty is the actual cause. It's almost poverty that pushes people to addiction to cope or that it causes mental illness. But that's just silly right
If drugs were causing homelessness then why are all the rich drug addicts, not homeless same logic applies to mental illness? Oh yeah because they're rich. It's almost like poverty is the actual cause. It's almost poverty that pushes people to addiction to cope or that it causes mental illness. But that's just silly right

"Change was inevitable"
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“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM