I believe lecturing people is a turnoff. It’s really quite simple, give hand outs or don’t. I would never give a hand out to people begging on street corners. I do, as suggested earlier, support homeless shelters and food pantries.
Panhandling should be banned because of the danger of the situation for people traveling in those areas and the fact that it primarily funds illegal drugs.
Wasn’t too many years ago up north where a woman who was known to assist and help the homeless was murdered by one of the men she was assisting. I don’t like to see anyone guilted into opening their car window and handing out cash.
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