• @mean_bean279
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    -31 month ago

    The freedom to live in a tent and shit into the sewer system that feeds the water supply is the same level of freedom that gives me a right to kill people without repercussions. Sometimes limitations on “freedoms” are acceptable because society has a structure. They can choose to live outside of that society, but they clearly enjoy living in places like LA… so they have a choice. Either accept somewhere to live and get out of the streets, or leave society as a whole.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      You don’t even seem to have a basic understanding of how city water supplies work. No amount of people shitting in the woods makes your drinking water contaminated; where the fuck do you think animals shit?

      Edit: there are absolutely public health concerns to be made about human shit being around where people do things, especially non porous surfaces which don’t offer opportunities for decomposition. But that’s a problem to be solved with better public restroom coverage, even housed people will pee/shit in public when there isn’t a restroom available

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      51 month ago

      Either accept somewhere to live and get out of the streets, or leave society as a whole.

      I don’t care about conforming to society. You can make me care about it if society feeds all hungry children. Until then, it doesn’t interest me.

    • @pingveno
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      21 month ago

      For the record, Portland’s water supply comes from the Bull Run Watershed. The sewer system is a combined sewer system, so if someone does poop down a storm sewer inlet, it goes to the same water treatment system as everyone else’s poop.

      That said, people pooping on the sidewalk is a legit problem. I’ve had to report a couple of poops that were pretty clearly human.