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Troll_Police_ posted...

if you honestly believe that is anything other than a tiny minority of homeless you are just dumb.

Estimated incidence for mental illnesses in the general population tend to be in the 20% range, and that's just the ones that are bad enough to get a concrete diagnosis instead of simply needing help with more vague "mental health problems." 20% is already more than can be considered a "tiny minority," even without considering the fact that that number is very obviously going to be higher in a population that's already demonstrating an inability to function at a normal level (to say nothing of not being able to get diagnoses because you have to be rich to get any sort of health care in the US). Mental illness goes beyond the ones that are rocking back and forth while grunting, you know.

Troll_Police_ posted...

I'll tell you right now their attitudes are s***. the vast majority of them are able bodied people who realized they can get by without working.

Is that what you observed yourself by watching them work comfortably and successfully for a time and then decide not to, or is that what they told you? Because most people - especially guys - are going to be far more comfortable boasting about laziness than attributing their reluctance to work to something like social anxiety or depression, and that means you can't take boast at face value. Even if it is "just laziness," there's an entire class of psychopathology called "disorders of diminished motivation" that identifies "just laziness" as a symptom of multiple definite mental disorders. The term "avolition" exists for a reason, you know.

Troll_Police_ posted...

bro, when you were in school, how many fingers were you taught a person has on each hand.
5 right?

but you do know that there are people born with fewer and sometimes even more right?

but youre taught 5.

why is that do you think? could it be because anything other than 5 isnt the norm, and is a statistical outlier?

Actually, I'm pretty sure that the only time I was ever taught anything in school about the number of fingers people have, it was talking about polydactyly in high school biology. So even your poorly-chosen analogy is wrong. How embarrassing.