there's the rub, as much as I too detest the sidewalk toilet aspects and seeing their pitiful state, I know the old man has nowhere to turn for help or even access to a toilet. I do have empathy for those like him, that's a living hell. he like so many others have been forced thru the cracks by purposeful systemic neglect from the same Gmt. BSers who caused the homeless problem decades ago and refuse to do anything but make it worse.
Like is said, we are judged by how we treat the least among us.