This is incredible. How can solidarity be prohibited by law? In a country where everybody is very alerted about "the state" having an influence on your individual interests, how can they regulate what you're doing with your own food? I'm seriously shocked and interested in the "logic" behind said law.
just a bit of information about the laws in question. the laws are designed to
de-incentivize homelessness. A quote from the mayor being "I'm not satisfied with having a cycle of homeless in the city of Fort Lauderdale, providing them with a meal and keeping them in that cycle on the street is not productive."
because apparently homeless people that starved to death is better that whatever is going on now?
other anti-homeless laws from there include not being allowed to ask for money in any busy area and not being allowed to sleep or store personal property in any publicly owned area.
Just to be clear “de-incentivizing homelessness” in these cases usually doesn’t mean getting them to stop being homeless. It means getting them to go be homeless somewhere else.
ok this is only 1/2 truth. some scumbag politicians are using this as an excuse to push the home less out. but this isn't the cold-hearted law its being made out to be. ill simplify it imagine if you're feeding stray cats nothing wrong on the surface you're doing a good deed but the problem is you now created a spot for feline leukemia and rabies and other diseases to infect all the cats. your intentions were good but bad results that end with a lot of dead cats. so we set up shelters for cats and test them and isolate them from other cats if there sick. now imagine the same scenario but with homeless but add in mental illness and unsanitary conditions dirty cloths and a lot of them not bathing as often as they should lot of issues with human wast on the side walks in some places. so we have a good place for bad stuff to happen. so we pass laws to stop that from happening. the bad part is that's where it all stops no new places for them to go no new places for them to get food or what
ever they need and not enough room in actual shelter/soup kitchens that we can keep sanitary and try to help the sick or at least try to cut down the spread of diseases. and of corse some taking advantage of the law just to push the homeless out of there city.
Can somebody elaborate?
de-incentivize homelessness. A quote from the mayor being "I'm not satisfied with having a cycle of homeless in the city of Fort Lauderdale, providing them with a meal and keeping them in that cycle on the street is not productive."
because apparently homeless people that starved to death is better that whatever is going on now?
other anti-homeless laws from there include not being allowed to ask for money in any busy area and not being allowed to sleep or store personal property in any publicly owned area.