<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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 </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 11:50 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6254722985341743842"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-6254722985341743842WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace …<br><b>Cc:</b> William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] what would you do?<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">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 </span>w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Oy vey, how did we get to here?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 11:26 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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