Home secretary criticised for tweets vowing to restrict use of tents by homeless people, ‘many of them from abroad’

  • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’ve come to the conclusion that lots of things can be described as a “choice”. Working in a sweatshop is a choice. Who you fuck is a choice. Being poor is a choice. But choices are, to one degree or another, informed by your environment. Sometimes just a little, sometimes to the point where the word “choice” implies more freedom of action than a person actually has.

    Being an asshole, for example, would be much closer to the un-coerced end of that spectrum than being homeless.