[ExI] what would you do?

[William Flynn Wallace]

I am intrigued.  How did we get to a point where a person is declared
incompetent in the eyes of the law without even going before a judge and
hearing the facts?  bill w

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 11:50 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] what would you do?
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> >…Spike, it comes down to benefits and deficits (cui bono): to speak or
> not to speak.  I suspect that the deficits related to speaking are nil and
> the benefits possibly large, but I dunno.   bill w
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> Fully agree Billw, but speaking what to whom?  If I just go to the park
> people and request we take down the map, that doesn’t really solve the
> problem, for even without the map, the park is still externalizing risk on
> unsuspecting visitors.  The city can’t really do anything because being
> homeless is not a crime.  The stabber didn’t even really do anything
> illegal, by the line of reasoning our society has adopted, where addicts
> are victims of the disease of addiction, resulting in their homelessness
> and so they are not responsible for their actions.  They get a blanket
> pardon if they are drug addicts.  A prosecutor cannot prove the perp was
> not devouring illegal drugs at the time.  It’s illegal to commit crimes
> while not on drugs or course.
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> Oy vey, how did we get to here?
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> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 11:26 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> A coupla months ago, I posted in this forum an ethical dilemma.  A nice
> park down in San Jose has a number of walking trails and other nice
> features…But all along the south side, the trail goes along Penitencia
> Creek where homeless people have been taking up residenceless…
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