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It's not "sleeping outdoors" that is at issue here, it's the long term encampments in public spaces and how to deal with them.
It's not your existence that's the issue, my friend, it's the fact you exist in the same Earth as me...
Given these people have nowhere to go why not set aside some public land that allows long term encampments or maybe if it’s a concern about the safety of these encampments, the government could acquire an empty office building and retrofit it with modest accommodations for these peoples.
Or you could just admit it’s not about helping these people it’s about making them go away.
It is sleeping outdoors. There is no mention of it only applying to long term encampments.
Okay then, why is the solution of making sleeping outdoors illegal bring debated by the highest court in the land? Why is the supreme court of the US even entertaining such an unethical proposition? Doing so is just the US abdicating responsibility for it's people, and intensifying and welcoming inequality. Why not debate starting housing programmes for people instead, so that people do not have to sleep outside in the first place?
Oh easy, give them indoor housing
Oh no poor people existing where I can see them!? Better dehumanize em