Should there be a "moral" element the the allocation of social housing?

geri1965_2

I would like an answer from The_White_Horse, since he/she is the one throwing the insults around.

casualwalks

ninky wrote: »

a slag is according to the dictionary a "dissipated woman". dissipated according to the dictionary • DISSIPATED (adjective)
The adjective DISSIPATED has 2 senses:
1. unrestrained by convention or morality
2. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

you decide.

I like it! I think I'll endeavour to be a slag.

ninky_2

i'm not sure if 'slag' is actually an insult or rather highlights the limited reasoning of the person using the term.

casualwalks

On the topic of morality and social housing, my two cents is that I would not want social housing to be allocated on "morality" because I don't believe we can divide people into "good" and "bad".

To say (for example) that a person with a substance misuse problem is less deserving of housing because of their behaviour is taking a simplistic view of the human nature. I've known and worked with quite a few people with heroin dependence and almost without exception their lives have been complex and painful. Looking over their histories often unveils a childhood full of the most horrible abuse (i'm talking beaten almost to death, STi by the age of 3, starved to the point of eating rubbish to survive, addicted to hard drugs by the age of 13 to name a few). In my view anyone who has been through experiences like that and is still surving by any means they are able (including numbing their pain with narcotics) isn't a bad person, but someone who needs all the support they can get.

geri1965_2

casualwalks wrote: »

I've known and worked with quite a few people with heroin dependence and almost without exception their lives have been complex and painful. Looking over their histories often unveils a childhood full of the most horrible abuse (i'm talking beaten almost to death, STi by the age of 3, starved to the point of eating rubbish to survive, addicted to hard drugs by the age of 13 to name a few). In my view anyone who has been through experiences like that and is still surving by any means they are able (including numbing their pain with narcotics) isn't a bad person, but someone who needs all the support they can get.

Yep, my sister (the slag with three children by three different fathers) fosters kids, and some of their stories are horrific. Thankfully they are mostly still pretty young when she has them (toddlers is her preferred age) but she has emergency fostered teenagers, and you can just tell that some of them are going to end up as addicts/on the street.