Does a mentally disturbed person have the right to be homeless? Can you give me three reasons why?

Question

Can you give me three reasons why?

Answer 1

Yes.

Reason #1: Freedom to persue happiness.

Reason #2: Freedom of choice.

Reason #3: Right to privacy.

Answer 2

Are you asking for their legal rights to reside in public places, or are you trying to argue that they have no ethical rights to be homeless? Last I checked, people have the right to choose where they live which include choosing not to have a permanent residence. Of course, there are many laws against them sleeping or loitering in many of the places where they end up sleeping or staying, but that is a different matter. Anyone can be arrested for trespassing, regardless of whether or not you have a home. There are other vagrancy laws that are still on the books in some places, and are usually not strongly enforced.

The sad thing is I'm pretty sure you're coming from a place where you think the homeless are a blight on society, and they're all drug addicts and drunks who have nothing to offer to society, and are merely leeches on the rest of us, parasitically existing off of the hard work of good people like you. If that's the case, please die now.

If you're trying to stimulate conversation to find new ways to help the homeless, who might I add, mostly are NOT there by choice, and ARE trying to do something about their situation. You probably don't know it, but I'd be willing to bet at least one person you know is homeless, and you'd never know it... Homelessness in America is an ever growing problem, and as long as the income gap keeps getting bigger and bigger, and social services budgets keep getting cut further and further to spend more on tax breaks for big corporations, and military spending to go rape the rest of the world so those same corporations can make even more money, it's just going to get worse... You may feel all safe and secure in your brand new ranch with marble counters, steel appliances, and two car garage that was just built for peanuts by some mexicans you hired at home despot, but when the wave breaks and people see that the roar wasn't really cheers of joy and excitement, but the screams of those who's backs were being broken by the heavy hand of the policy makers above them, you may just find yourself living in a cardboard box under an overpass like so many others are forced to do after the 3, 4 or 5 jobs they try to hold down to pay rent just don't cut it anymore...

I'm sure if you try hard enough, you'll find your answer in there somewhere....

Answer 3

I think the mentally disturbed person has the right to have people look out for them and their best interests. Being homeless is very dangerous and when someone is not able to look after themself society should step in and assist.

Answer 4

I question whether it is a right to be homeless or the lack of a right for busy bodies to stick themselves into other people's affairs. All of us are mentally disturbed to a greater or lesser degree and it all comes down to how we cope with reality. If some choose to live on the streets, so be it. Some used to choose to live in caves and in the mountains but they were called hermits and then given reverential status.

Answer 5

Gee, I didn't know you needed permission to be homeless! Anyway, three reasons! Ok.
They are mentally disturbed and do not have a grasp on reality or what it means to be "normal" like you?!
No one wants to take responsibility for mentally ill.
Health care does not cover most mental illnesses to any satisfactory degree.

There you go..

Answer 6

The right to be homeless? Wtf???

Lack of Health care...
Lack of Income...
Lack of Positive societal contribution...
We seem to forget that it is contributing citizens that has 'rights' within that nation.
Now common decency dictates our behavior towards these folks but rights are only an illusion. Rights are the privileges a society decides all citizens will receive.
The sense of entitlement without contribution is only a fantasy and not real in nature.

Ancient Sparta had a system free of these sort of issues.

Answer 7

if mentally disturbed is:
-an adult
-not declared incompantant
-has not been judged a threat to themself or others

we all have the right under these conditions, to make what is an unwise decision to others.

Answer 8

That's like saying: do you have the right to be poor? Do you have the right to be carless? Do you have the right to have no legs? Of course, do you have a right to go about naked? If housing were as easy to come by as used clothing it would make sense, but basically you're a jerk like Gavin Newsom.

Answer 9

right!???

anyhow, I say no.

1. that person can be dangerous if there is no shelter to house him/her
2. Enviroment will drive him/her worse
3. He/she may feel rejected in society even more.

Answer 10

Because it is a free world and their is no law against it unless they become suicidal or homicidal