(11-30-2025, 09:35 AM)neonjoe Wrote: ^ Society fails when we lose empathy…
Yeah and society has thus failed since we - or rather, some people - have fully accepted this and normalized these issues. They've made it "acceptable" to promote these failures, but suggest it's an abhorrent point of view to have if an individual or a collective sees these things and says hell no. Anyone who says things like harm reduction as it is now actually works, that it's not the addicts fault they're addicts, legalizing slums in cities, who can walk past people nodding off on fentanyl every single time they go out their door or who votes for or supports any moron that supports this is a truly unempathetic, sick asshole. A person is VOID of all empathy if they can look at the situation and think they're being empathetic.
Fortunately it's not the majority of us who are like that, just the ones who seem to have a chokehold on the political and media world. But unfortunately...it's those people who have the power and the loudest voices. What a shame, too. This region is hovering close to 700'000 people and is one of the most economically and intellectually productive places in the province, if not country and it hasn't managed to build a new train station after planning it half a decade ago. They literally haven't done anything tangible - except the fence. Much of that goes to Metrolinx, some to this region just being run by morons, some by voters and some by those living in a space that is meant to be used at this point to build a new train station.
The original Kitchener Station was built 169 years ago. It took them less than 10 months, including actually extending the GT Railway line to it. It has been half a decade since the "intermodal station" was proposed. What has this region done, besides burn millions of dollars on this with nothing to show? And now that the region is sorta slightly maybe possible kinda but probably not really going to start the project, it's being held up AGAIN because of a bunch of drug addicts and their enablers. If empathy is a concern, then the economic failures and losses to the local society has been a symptom of that - and of course those addicts who have never been given real help, just syringes. It's not just the societal failure that we've legally allowed this mess to exist, but that it's also costing everyone else more money to deal with. Regular, productive people and the overall local/extralocal society are losing out economically and other ways due to this stagnation.
Feelings should not be part of this equation but in clown world they somehow seem to take a high prescident. Someone empathetic would say yeah get these people off the street by whatever means to help, while also steamrolling the development of this project as it provides an incredibly high net benefit for everyone in Ontario and places connected.