I could see it in every street kid I spoke with who steals and robs and hurts and wastes away the day doing drugs. To survive as they do means losing the last of their humanity. On the streets, emotion is an extravagance that they cannot afford. If they allowed themselves to feel bad, they wouldn’t be able to do the things they need to do in order to live. It’s why we abhor this particular subset of the homeless population. We detest them because they are forced to operate outside our social norms of decent human behavior. We hate them because they survive in spite of their humanity. We hate
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