Fort Lauderdale, Florida is among the many cities in the United States that are making it exceedingly more difficult for homeless people without the risk of being fined or arrested for breaking what the local government deems is the law. According to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, bans all over many American cities on sleeping in public have increased by sixty percent since 2011. Those who agree with the food-sharing bans believe that such bans will result in lower crime rates, assuming that homeless people are a possible threat to the safety of the public. However, many homeless people are virtually harmless and preventing them for attempting to do basic human activities is morally unjust.
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Destitution is not necessarily passive; and public provision is not always a way of compounding passivity. By focusing on what we allow people to do to satisfy their own basic needs on their own initiative, and by scrutinizing the legal obstacles that we place in their way, we get a better sense that what we are dealing with here is not just "the problem of homelessness," but a million or more persons whose activity and dignity and freedom are at …show more content…
The laws and ordinances issued by various local governments across the nation are imposing on the natural freedoms of homeless people to do basic human activities, such as eating and sleeping. Homeless people deserve the basic human rights that everyone else gets to have. The many laws against homeless people are morally unjust and purposely make the lives of homeless more difficult in order to stifle their chances of reverting back to public society. The laws made to prevent the homeless from sleeping and receiving a proper meal leave the homeless to struggle through their already difficult lives. The local government of numerous cities deny the natural human rights of the homeless despite knowing the end result of the homeless eventually perishing. The overall prevention of homeless being able to do these basic human activities is unfair and morally
Anti-homeless laws that prevent …show more content…
Destitution is not necessarily passive; and public provision is not always a way of compounding passivity. By focusing on what we allow people to do to satisfy their own basic needs on their own initiative, and by scrutinizing the legal obstacles that we place in their way, we get a better sense that what we are dealing with here is not just "the problem of homelessness," but a million or more persons whose activity and dignity and freedom are at …show more content…
The laws and ordinances issued by various local governments across the nation are imposing on the natural freedoms of homeless people to do basic human activities, such as eating and sleeping. Homeless people deserve the basic human rights that everyone else gets to have. The many laws against homeless people are morally unjust and purposely make the lives of homeless more difficult in order to stifle their chances of reverting back to public society. The laws made to prevent the homeless from sleeping and receiving a proper meal leave the homeless to struggle through their already difficult lives. The local government of numerous cities deny the natural human rights of the homeless despite knowing the end result of the homeless eventually perishing. The overall prevention of homeless being able to do these basic human activities is unfair and morally