Not The Onion

12551 readers

1522 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

180

Neighborhood 'sheriff' who tried to screen homeless campers stabbed to death by camper (katu.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17700329

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t have sympathy for a man who literally put himself in harms way using untried methods to make himself judge and jury over vulnerable people.

he did something dangerous and he paid for it with his life.

He tried to help keep his community safe by treating poor, disadvantaged folks like human beings.

Hey but you had to walk past addicts, so we all know you had it worse, and clearly have the moral high ground 🙄

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're missing the part where it was only the ones that met his approval that he was willing to help. I don't agree with it when actual aid nonprofits do the same and I don't agree with it when some random does it either. If you want to help the homeless you take the good with the bad. Drugged out people need food and water too. If they're a danger to themselves or others that doesn't fall under the jurisdiction of one random guy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ok, so you're not allowed to try to help people unless you help everyone. And if you're just a regular person doing what you can, you're actually in the wrong and deserve to be stabbed whilst trying to break up a fight. Gotcha. Great point, dude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Did I say that? Where did I say that he deserved anything. Your whole argument is predicated on my having said something that I very explicitly did not say. If you're upset that I don't feel sorry for him, I'm gonna direct you to the loads of people out there living on the street who I do actually feel sorry for because that is a failing of our society. This guy though? I don't have any bad feeling towards him. I'm just not surprised.

If anyone wants to help there are dozens of organizations out there with the benefit of checks and balances to make sure people get a fair shot at help and they need volunteers and paid workers all the time. Instead, this man chose to be a homeless camp's HOA. You have a good day though.