Free Will: A Blessing or a Curse?
It’s Probably Both.
Free will gives a person the ability to use excuses when they can, affecting the rule of completion. Here’s where emotion, greed, and lust can run freely convincing their subjects that it’s alright to eat something, to use something, or steal something.
Homeless people who are already low on confidence and self-esteem are prime targets to this kind of weakness. Weakness because it requires strength to fight the urges to use drugs, commit crimes, or perform sexual abuse.
Free will is the hardest opponent we face in getting control back. It requires understanding, reasoning, and focus just to get back to believing in the reality that normal community living is not only what society wants but what it allows.
Again, another example of why separation is necessary to tackle different issues within a group of people. This is a page from Shelter Outline: The Network’s playbook. It’s no longer about chopping the head off the snake to bring the body under control that only forces the body to find another method to play.
No we will tame the snake and keep the body whole, forcing it to add to its abilities and become naturally balanced. This double-edged sword can be handled, adjusted, and managed if we go after it instead of bagging, tagging, and sheltering while ignoring the root causes.
These methods are relics of the past. They’re not used much anymore. Today’s answer is often to not address them at all. Unfortunately, to have goodness, you must deal with some badness too and to some people, badness means drug withdrawals.
Maintaining balance will give us a good citizen, a welcoming neighbor, and a person society will be happy to have back. These are some of the goals Shelter Outline has in store for its contribution to society.
By the Street Sentinel

