Definitely agreed on that. When I mentioned imagining the realities of the many, many homeless that are worse off than myself, the addiction thing was considered within that. I definitely wouldn't want to have that constant, all encompassing need on top of the already inherent difficulties. Then there's the mental illness thing. While I surely have my own share of what most would deem "mental issues", I consider mine to be more of an incompatibility between actual reality (which I make great attempts to ascertain/see), and the more truly insane collective illusions that our world operates upon.

A great many homeless are *truly* seriously legit mentally ill, and some decades ago the more robust supports for that were removed (I think under Reagan, or perhaps Clinton. I know the last such facility near here was closed in the 90s, because I visited there around 1994 just to speak with a fellow there that I heard of who claimed insights into the Apocalypse and wanted to meet him for myself, anyway, digressions).

So yes, there's not nearly the levels of "helful" *mentality*. In general, everything is structured to just get and keep people with various "issues" "out of the way" and as out of sight as possible, as quickly and easily as possible, with as little compassionate regard for what *they* are experiencing as possible, so that is indeed a more warlike manner.