Kenya in Crisis

[Shawnee123]

Where is the enabling you speak of? Do you mean by people giving money to homeless?

That is personal choice, to give, and was something I had not addressed. Rather, I addressed that addiction, like mental illness, cannot be solved by a "wake up and smell the coffee and get better, mister, or else."

We can all point to those who have overcome. All my life I've heard people say "So and so got out of the ghetto (substitute the words poverty, or 'the gutter', or 'out from under the bridge') and made a life, so there is no excuse for the other so and so to not do so."

The first so and so had something, someone, something inside that made the first so and so do something. I cannot judge why the second so and so is unable to do so, and would not disrespect either those who have found the way or those who haven't by pretending I know there's a magic formula and if everyone would just get with the program there would be no problem.