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Originally Posted by hepkatmama  you are right. change doesn't keep them on the street. extreme personal problems & high drama keep them on the street. they are denial that they can & should make a change.
giving them a fishing rod or blanket is humane and admirable. but no cash no how, not even change. money does not fall out of the sky, even if you have been under a rock.
i'm a socialist, remember? hand them a snack or drink, but no money. just remember when you feed strays they remember where their last meal came from. |
You left mental illness out of that - a lot of homeless folks aren't lazy, they're extreme bipolars, schizophrenics, autism spectrum disorders, severe alcoholics, or have a host of other physical or mental illnesses. These people can't just up and decide to change their lives, no matter how much they may want to. Since society hasn't decided that homelessness is a problem worth fixing, I do what I can for folks without endangering my own ability to provide for me and mine.
I don't know if y'all have ever been on the street, but it fucking sucks. There's nothing more dehumanizing than getting shit on constantly and never knowing where your next meal is coming from. Anybody that has the ability to get off the street will find a way (gutter punks excepted, but I don't give them anything), so the folks that are left are the ones that really need help the most.