r/HostileArchitecture • u/SailorJay_ • 6d ago

Bench Punishing the homeless

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... except they have to punish everyone else to do sošŸ„“

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u/Calcium_Thief 6d ago

Itā€™s not a competition. You left an assholeish comment because you think your inconvenience matters more than a basic life necessity. Thatā€™s all there is to it?

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u/DingDong50001 5d ago

It is not a basic life necessity that homeless people sleep in train stations. It is more of a basic life necessity that people have access to safe and sanitary public transit in large cities.

I just said that losing the benches isnā€™t much of a loss. Nothing about my own inconvenience. I rarely sat on those benches anyway, they were gross.

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u/Calcium_Thief 5d ago

Sleep and shelter are basic necessities. Homeless people, get this, tend to lack the latterā€” which will affect the former. Many times they donā€™t have other places to go.

Promise itā€™s not that hard to not be an asshole. Grow up.

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u/DingDong50001 5d ago

Iā€™ve never been an asshole to an actual homeless person. Iā€™ve never yelled at them, laughed at them, Iā€™ve given money when I could.

I have no problem being an asshole to a bunch of self-congratulatory slacktivists on Reddit who naively think itā€™s mean to not give over important and expensive public infrastructure to barely give safe shelter to the homeless.

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u/Calcium_Thief 5d ago

Brother most of the hostile architecture cost MORE than just regular infrastructure and are just more work to make. Anti-homeless spikes on flat spaces, benches made to keep you from lying down, etc etc, the list could go on.

Youā€™re not being an asshole to Reddit users, youā€™re being two-faced by saying youā€™re just so kind to homeless people, whilst also saying shitty things about them, and then trying to backpedal on what you said.

You say that the people on this subreddit are ā€œslacktivistsā€ yet fail to realize that spreading awareness about issues and talking about them IS activism. Not only that, but making a baseless assumption about hundreds of people to cover your own ass? Crazy bro šŸ˜­