{"id":20058,"date":"2025-08-19T16:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20058"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:34:46","slug":"this-is-really-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/19\/this-is-really-it\/","title":{"rendered":"this is really it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from ryan dowd:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is easy to answer the question of what to do with \u201cpeople who chose\u201d homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a far harder (and far more important) question: <strong><em>\u201cWhat do we do about people who struggle with profound mental health challenges?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For several decades the answer has been \u201cIgnore them and hope they go away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For reasons a five-year-old could figure out, that answer hasn\u2019t worked very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many countries are being forced to revisit the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our answer to that question will impact everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, people who are homeless will be impacted the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brutal, Darwinist, everyone-for-themselves answer will erode our collective morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That will damage everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t think that is being overly dramatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How a community treats its most vulnerable has always been the clearest litmus test for morality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from ryan dowd: It is easy to answer the question of what to do with \u201cpeople who chose\u201d homelessness. There is a far harder (and far more important) question: \u201cWhat do we do about people who struggle with profound mental health challenges?\u201d For several decades the answer has been \u201cIgnore them and hope they go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20059,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058\/revisions\/20059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}