How does an American intellectual, as Bessner describes himself, build a straw man like "a choice between freedom speech and freedom from homelessness"? Those two things are not on the same plane and they have nothing to do with one's ideological beliefs. Homelessness is not about a lack of housing, nor does it have anything to do with individual rights or govt responsibilities. As we've seen multiple times, when govts take an active role in "battling" homelessness, they tend to make the problem worse, not better. I'm all for taking different looks at things and making valid comparisons between systems of thought or governance. Valid comparisons. That was not one.
How does an American intellectual, as Bessner describes himself, build a straw man like "a choice between freedom speech and freedom from homelessness"? Those two things are not on the same plane and they have nothing to do with one's ideological beliefs. Homelessness is not about a lack of housing, nor does it have anything to do with individual rights or govt responsibilities. As we've seen multiple times, when govts take an active role in "battling" homelessness, they tend to make the problem worse, not better. I'm all for taking different looks at things and making valid comparisons between systems of thought or governance. Valid comparisons. That was not one.