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No. I sometimes get my coachman to horsewhip them for their impertinance though. *Elok runs from the coachman* Re:OP, I generally don't give because the ratio of shysters to the generally needy is just too high. However, if they were genuinely homeless, I wouldn't worry about my contributions encouraging them to continue their whatever. "Hey, I wake up on a park bench covered in pigeon crap every morning, when I'm not getting hassled by the police or teenagers with rocks...I haven't showered in weeks, got laid in months and have about a 50/50 chance of surviving the winter...but I can get a couple of bucks just by asking. Awesome!" |
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I don't carry change, but I have given cash very rarely. There was this one guy who was a sorry case, but he managed to memorize all of the world capitals. I picked some obscure African country and he gave me the name of the capital straight off. I thought that deserved some compensation, no matter what he did with the money, short of buying a hit of crack -- we all need a drink every now and then, after all.
As a christian, I try to follow "don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing." But it's tough to follow the spirit of that command nowadays in the first world. Homeless people in the city begging is long-term demoralizing to this country boy. I give to So Others Might Eat (a local homeless organization), the poor box at my church, and Catholic Charities (which has a homeless ministry), but the left hand is firmly in control on those. |
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I have mixed feelings. I would say I usually don't give them anything unless they ask you to buy them food(say if there outside a fastfood joint), which has only happened to me once. Sometimes they'll get you outside the grocery store when you have change in hand, it's hard to refuse then as well. |
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