I understand your perspective and I do think it is inhumane to kick someone out of the subway. However, I don’t think anything constructive is occurring down there and if you were to ask me, “what is more important, the safety of the homeless and mentally ill vs. the safety of your wife and yourself?” I will choose my wife and myself every time.
The thing I think you're missing is that this isn't a dichotomy. It's not a choice between your safety and the homeless'. Rather, it's that you and your wife's safety is intrinsically tied to the safety of the homeless and mentally ill. No man's an island; we are only as good as the worst off. If we can actually rise the tide for people so that it's more difficult for folks to find themselves in a situation where they're a danger to others in the subway, then not just you and your wife, but everyone who uses the subway to commute is automatically made safer by default.
And always, that tricky annoying little one word question that she and others never seem to address.
HOW?!?
HOW does a stronger support network lead to a safer transit system tomorrow or next week? Fuck that, how long would that support network need to before being fully bolstered? A Year? Five years? Fuck the commuters until then? Raising the tide for all people is NOT a practical answer for real problems in the immediacy.
along those lines it's a stunning misinterpretation of the post
post says, whose safety is more important, I will choose the safety of me and my wife over homeless every time
this is obviously based on any given situation in which this IS the choice
the implied scenario is, a motherfucker is charging at your wife with his knife out, and you have to make a choice
or the implied scenario is, your wife will be stabbed next week unless law enforcement removes the motherfucker tonight, and do you want that to happen
the answer to these immediate choices is not "well you have to understand it's not either/or, we are all symbiotic, we wander this earth with our arms linked and our fortunes intertwined"
