Just so it's clear, I don't maintain the safehouse. Many others are the ones who add supplies, keep it clean, or even help Gaby. Not me. I'm simply a name on the deed. Any objections raised started with Lance a couple months ago. Prior to this, people didn't have a problem because there was always some assurance in getting loose.
I haven't noticed long-term harbored distrust or resentment for reasons other than my personality. For whatever it's worth. You're citing a problem that hasn't been one. Again, I didn't come up with this plan myself, but we decided to keep the safehouse going as a group. That group has had some turnover, but some of us are still here and see the value in a safespace for people like us upon arrival.
I've never dismissed your concerns, however. I'm communicating with you on them. But I won't take kindly to discussing them at length as being seen as "dismissing them." Telling you the circumstances that we have at this exact moment isn't dismissing them. It's also not up to me to come up with every solution for the Displaced. To repeat: objections to this process and seeing it as a jail were only raised by Lance recently, and I can't help but think that his objections have helped foster problems and distrust despite the rest of us trying to do our best by the other Displaced. If anything, I'd argue that's unfair.
I've gone over why this is the way it is, and why we need a plan in place to replace this process. I'm sorry you see that as dismissing the overall concern, or that I've shaken your trust for any reason. But just because I'm arguing in favor of a system that's worked for us doesn't mean I can't see a new one put into place. Those two things aren't absolutely opposed.
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I haven't noticed long-term harbored distrust or resentment for reasons other than my personality. For whatever it's worth. You're citing a problem that hasn't been one. Again, I didn't come up with this plan myself, but we decided to keep the safehouse going as a group. That group has had some turnover, but some of us are still here and see the value in a safespace for people like us upon arrival.
I've never dismissed your concerns, however. I'm communicating with you on them. But I won't take kindly to discussing them at length as being seen as "dismissing them." Telling you the circumstances that we have at this exact moment isn't dismissing them. It's also not up to me to come up with every solution for the Displaced. To repeat: objections to this process and seeing it as a jail were only raised by Lance recently, and I can't help but think that his objections have helped foster problems and distrust despite the rest of us trying to do our best by the other Displaced. If anything, I'd argue that's unfair.
I've gone over why this is the way it is, and why we need a plan in place to replace this process. I'm sorry you see that as dismissing the overall concern, or that I've shaken your trust for any reason. But just because I'm arguing in favor of a system that's worked for us doesn't mean I can't see a new one put into place. Those two things aren't absolutely opposed.