For some to live in comfort, others must pay with their lives

From The Homeless Problem :

The recent and growing spate of laws making it illegal to feed the homeless is not about the homeless at all, it's about life in America. It's about American values and the American dream. Yes. It will work to eradicate the homeless from the affected cities. . .but that's the point. Anywhere but here. Yes. But it's part of the out-of-sight out-of-mind mentality that pervades America. It is also part of the inhumanity of the system, a system that is built on and thrives on the lives of others.

Vegetarians do not wish to deal with the problem of the horrible, inhumane conditions of raising animals for food and their thoughtless slaughtering, so they eat veggies and call their humane choice moral. A morality based on selective blindness and willful inactivity is no morality at all. But it's American as apple pie and Chevrolet.

A culture that owes its existence to the rejected, the abuse and the deaths of others is not a moral culture, despite the recent spate of Christian outcries. It is not a humane culture. Karl Popper calls such a society psychotic. Douglas Hofstadter has noted a paranoid aspect to American society that fits with Wilhelm Reich's analysis of fascism. If you're frightened of something, get rid of it. Of course, if you're frightened of yourself and what you've done, get rid of any reminders.

Getting rid of the homeless is necessary for a people who do not wish to confront their inhumanity or their rapacious drive for riches and comfort, a society that does not wish to confront the reality of its existence. . .that for some to live well, for some to live in comfort, others must pay with their lives--either via depleted, borderline lives or death. Collateral damage. It's built into the system. The economic theories that hold that there must be a certain level of unemployment, there must be poverty for society to work. It's called the reality of the system--or, simply, reality.

Some kind of necessity: we must not be allowed to see the costs of the American way of life. It would not be appropriate. Like no sex organs on dolls or blacked out genitalia of classical art statues. So, starving the residue, the wastage, the human detritus out or beating them to death is not a crime. It is a social and ethical necessity. Nobody likes to owe their existence to another; it's a constant reminder that they couldn't do it on their own.