Excess Compassion
Key Thinking (Aloud)
English - March 26, 2021 05:00 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Personal Journals philosophy politics culture thinking thinking out loud travel meta discussion Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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"The houseless community" is being kicked out of Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles. Activists are protesting this as an issue of compassion for the homeless - the city and police are the villains in that narrative. But how fair is that? Is the argument to just allow the homeless to stay in our city parks? Yes, the city has to do a lot more to solve homelessness, but how is this a bad step?