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Sega9599 posted...

But you can't fix a lot of the problems. How do you fix the angry guy who just trashes every place he's put into and doesn't want to work?

Depending on the roots of the issue, therapy/rehab, mostly. Obviously, you can't force that on people and there will inevitably be people that would rather refuse the help. Unfortunately, those are the ones that probably should just end up in jail for their belligerence, since there really isn't much more you can do with them except forcibly isolate them from society so they don't hurt anyone. That shouldn't, however, discourage efforts to help everyone else, any more than the ~5% of people that blatantly abuse welfare should be used to justify taking it away from everyone else.

Of course, saying that, Medicine Hat has pulled it off despite that apparent reality (I hate to keep bringing them up, but as one of the few areas that's actually tried this approach, their success is extremely relevant here). I don't know off-hand how they handle people that refuse help, but I guess they've found something that works, because they have succeeded.

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