We also have people driven to assisted suicide because they can’t afford to live.

“In February, a 51-year-old Ontario woman known as Sophia was granted physician-assisted death after her chronic condition became intolerable and her meagre disability stipend left her little to survive on, according to CTV News. “The government sees me as expendable trash, a complainer, useless and a pain in the ass,” she said in a video obtained by the network. For two years, she and friends had pleaded without success for better living conditions, she said. Now a second case has emerged with several parallels: another woman, known as Denise, has also applied to end her life after being unable to find suitable housing and struggling to survive on disability payments.”

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    This has been a thing in the US for a while unfortunately. We acknowledge that food, shelter, clean water, and reasonable healthcare are basic human rights for prisoners, but when it comes to regular poor people? Suddenly we’re a nanny state and they’re abusing the system by… being alive, I guess.

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      Not even for prisoners, when you look at Texas inmates suffering and sometimes dying from unprecedented heat with no air conditioning.

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      The biggest influence the “nanny” state has on housing in the US is that it artificially constrains supply with zoning that is far too strict.