• ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    Do you extend this sentiment to vehicles too? If I drive to work and park my car there, is it morally correct for someone to come steal it because they want to drive somewhere or sleep in it but don’t have a car? After all, it’s just sitting there unused, so I must be some entitled asshole for expecting it to be there when I’m ready to head home, right?

    I also find it funny you chose the words parasitical and greedy when these squatters are quite literally feeding off the homeowners and selfishly taking something that doesn’t belong to them. Your argument is not too different from a CEO who wants to cut worker pay and give himself a bigger bonus with the money.

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      8 months ago

      I agree with you. How does one apply this logic to homes but not to cars, phones, bikes or anything else?

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        7 months ago

        cars, phones, bikes

        Since when are those essential to life, or whose availability constantly/consistently mean the difference between life and death?

        Food, shelter, and clothing are the essentials that should have a base tier that anyone can leverage at low to no cost. Anything else is superfluous.