• kitnaht@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      How does telling you the truth about the homeless population benefit me in any way, shape, or form?

      You haven’t passed the bar to call me “selfish”. Sure, I might be an asshole, but this isn’t one of those times either. The reality is that we can’t help everyone, and some people aren’t saveable. You can’t point to Sweden or Finland as answers either, because they have the highest per-capita drug deaths of other euro nations.

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        The ol’ we can’t save everyone so why save anyone argument. Bold strategy cotton.

        Also, since we’re talking about drug deaths do you know what county has the highest IN THE WORLD?

        The United States, so yeah if we can copy Finland’s homework and reduce our homeless by 435k, why wouldn’t we?

        Oh that’s right the guy on the Internet gate keeping who can call him a selfish asshole says it might not work.

        P.S. Finland had 253 people die of drug overdoses in 2023 with a population of 5.5 million.

        (4.6 deaths per 100,000 people)

        The US had 105,000 people die of drug overdoses in 2023 with a population of 335 million.

        (31.3 deaths per 100,000 people)