people who use my public transportation and infrastructure posts as an opportunity to complain about having to see unhoused people or people with substance use disorders: We Are not Friends, I Am Not Affiliated with You, Get Off My Post
without fail, any time someone mentions the lack of public spaces or inaccessibility of those places someone complains about how ALSO there are POOR or CRAAAAZY people there and how that's one of the biggest problems
i'm not sorry to break this to you, but public spaces are for the public. every single person is entitled to use that space, to exist within it, and to be granted the same dignity and respect as everyone else
that means you will be inconvenienced. You will be annoyed. You will be annoying one. A constant, innate quality of public spaces is the all-consuming awareness that people have different needs and desires and those butt up against each other
again: public spaces are for the public. if you want more of them, you'd better get used to dealing with other people being there. They have as much right to be there as you do
