[keiferski]

The article is good and worth reading. I think the author was going for a bit of a Kerouac / Burroughs style in his writing.

I have never been homeless or close to being homeless, but it seems incredibly likely that under the stress of losing my job, not knowing where my next meal is from, where to sleep tonight, etc. – I would slowly lose the ability to make the kind of rational ethical decisions you’re criticizing him for.

Heck, even going a day or two without sleep is enough to make the average functional person incapable of pragmatic, rational thought.