Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately depending how you look at it), basically every street beggar (at least in the UK) has some form of drug or alcohol problem that you’d be funding.
(For context, I say fortunate as there are ways for people who don’t have these problems and are homeless to survive)
Unlike you, I feel no need to control homeless people. All I want to give them is the choice to do better. I’m not interested in forcing anyone into anything. Just making it easier to do what they want. I find that nearly everyone in the world wants to do good, to be good. They just don’t get enough help.
I’ve done a lot of work with the homeless, and it’s sadly true here in the US too. Still, I think it’s normal for the average person to want to do something, even if it’s not without its drawbacks.
Yeah. If you have the time you could perhaps get a gift card which cannot be spent on alcohol, but even then they might sell it. The most you can really do is give them opened food
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Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately depending how you look at it), basically every street beggar (at least in the UK) has some form of drug or alcohol problem that you’d be funding.
(For context, I say fortunate as there are ways for people who don’t have these problems and are homeless to survive)
If funding an alcohol problem is necessary in order to fund a life, then I want to fund an alcohol problem.
The alcohol problem is what’s destroying their life
Having no food would destroy it a little faster, methinks
There are plenty of charities that provide food though, so you can give to them or just buy the person food
Money keeps. Food doesn’t.
That’s the point. So they cannot sell the food for drug/alcohol money
Unlike you, I feel no need to control homeless people. All I want to give them is the choice to do better. I’m not interested in forcing anyone into anything. Just making it easier to do what they want. I find that nearly everyone in the world wants to do good, to be good. They just don’t get enough help.
Fair enough. I just don’t want to contribute to their self destruction.
I’ve done a lot of work with the homeless, and it’s sadly true here in the US too. Still, I think it’s normal for the average person to want to do something, even if it’s not without its drawbacks.
Yeah. If you have the time you could perhaps get a gift card which cannot be spent on alcohol, but even then they might sell it. The most you can really do is give them opened food