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10-26-2015 09:30 AM |
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Originally Posted by queasy27
(Post 1135472)
I don't like being approached by strangers in parking lots or gas stations, etc., but I do sometimes give money to panhandlers who beg at intersections. It doesn't matter to me what they do with the money or if they're truly "homeless." It's still an uncomfortable, tiring and sweaty way to get money, esp. in Texas and Florida. I'm sure they get called names and have trash thrown at them and I'm always very grateful that my life hasn't taken me down the same unfortunate path. Severe mental illness or catastrophic medical bills/financial reverses could still happen to me or anyone.
Even if the beggars use my money to buy drugs or alcohol, I still think that's better than if they rob someone for it.
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Did you really mean that? If you did, that's probably one of the most cold and
callous things I’ve ever read. These people need help not money for their next heroine fix.
If you spend some time volunteering to help them (which I have), you will see how giving them money for liquor or drugs is doing them great harm NOT helping them.
One day you might be volunteering to wash dishes at a soup kitchen and you’re called away to help a young man having convulsions. 911 is called and you hope he is still alive when they arrive. You still see blood coming from one of the many needle puncture wounds on his arm. While he has some consciousness you ask what he injected. Where did he get the money? At the intersection, where he gets money for all his fixes.
Some people are part of the solution and some are part of the problem. I’m not sure you’re part of the solution. |
